House of Dracula is a 1945 American horror film released and distributed by Universal Pictures. Directed by Erle C. Kenton, the film features several Universal Horror properties meeting as they had done in the 1944 film House of Frankenstein. The film is based around Dr. Franz Edelmann, who is visited by both Count Dracula and Larry Talbot, who are trying to cure their vampirism and lycanthropy, respectively. Meanwhile, bewitched by Dracula, Edelmann becomes obsessed with reviving a catatonic Frankenstein's monster.