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* AnAxeToGrind: Groton uses a double-bitted felling axe to kill his victims.
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* OffWithHerHead: Joanie Fontaine is decapitated by the [[AnAxeToGrind axe-wielding]] AxeCrazy Groton in the opening scenes. Later, Dr. Durea is accidentally decapitated by his own guillotine.
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* OffWithHerHead: Joanie Fontaine is decapitated by the [[AnAxeToGrind axe-wielding]] axe-wielding AxeCrazy Groton in the opening scenes. Later, Dr. Durea is accidentally decapitated by his own guillotine.
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* VillainousRescue: Samantha is saved from being raped by Rico and his [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels biker gang]] by the AxeCrazy Groton who kills the bikers [[AnAxeToGrind with an axe]]. However, her salvation is short-lived as Groton takes her to be come one of MadScientist Dr. Durea's experimental subjects.
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* VillainousRescue: Samantha is saved from being raped by Rico and his [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels biker gang]] by the AxeCrazy Groton who kills the bikers [[AnAxeToGrind with an axe]].axe. However, her salvation is short-lived as Groton takes her to be come one of MadScientist Dr. Durea's experimental subjects.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: During the shootout in Dr. Durea's lab, Mike gets shot in the shoulder. His wound is never treated and does nothing to slow him down for the rest of the film.
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* AttemptedRape: Rico and his [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels biker gang]] attempt to rape Samantha on the beach, but [[VillainousRescue are killed by]] the AxeCrazy Groton.
* VillainousRescue: Samantha is saved from being raped by Rico and his [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels biker gang]] by the AxeCrazy Groton who kills the bikers [[AnAxeToGrind with an axe]]. However, her salvation is short-lived as Groton takes her to be come one of MadScientist Dr. Durea's experimental subjects.
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* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The [[TheIgor mute, simple-minded assistant Groton]], and the DepravedDwarf Grazbo, are both working for Dr. Durea in the hopes that the serum he is devolping will cure their conditions.
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* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The [[TheIgor mute, simple-minded assistant Groton]], and the DepravedDwarf Grazbo, are both working for Dr. Durea in the hopes that the serum he is devolping will cure their conditions.conditions.
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* DeathByFallingOver: Grazbo dies when hen falls through the trapdoor in Dr. Durea's MadScientistLaboratory on to the beach, and his head slams into the axe he dropped earlier.
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* DeathByFallingOver: Grazbo dies when hen when falls through the trapdoor in Dr. Durea's MadScientistLaboratory on to the beach, and his head slams into the axe he dropped earlier.
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* DeathByFallingOver: Grazbo dies when hen falls through the trapdoor in Dr. Durea's MadScientistLaboratory on to the beach, and his head slams into the axe he dropped earlier.
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* MadScientistLaboratory: Dr. Durea has a secret laboratory hidden beneath the Creature Emporium--the house of horrors he runs at the amusement park--where he conducts all of his experiments in developing his blood serum. Much of the electrical lab equipment in the lab are props originally used in ''Film/Frankenstein1931''. Ken Strickfaden, who had designed all the electrical gadgetry in that film, supplied the equipment.
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* WeakenedByTheLight: The Monster forces Dracula out of the church and into the surrounding forest, where a fierce battle ensues between the two monsters. Dracula tears off the Monster's arms and head, but gets caught in the rays of the sun before he can make it back to his coffin and disintegrates into dust.
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* HypnoticEyes: Count Dracula is able to hypnotise people by staring into their eyes.
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* FaintInShock: Judith faints after Mike is struck by a blast from Dracula's ring and burns to ash in front of her eyes.
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* ThrowingTheDistraction: During the fight in Dr. Durea's MadScientistLaboratory,, Mike throws a bottle across the room where it smashes, causing Durea to shoot at the noise, while Mike makes a break for the stairs.
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* ThrowingTheDistraction: During the fight in Dr. Durea's MadScientistLaboratory,, Mike throws a bottle across the room where it smashes, causing Durea to shoot at the noise, while Mike makes a break for the stairs.stairs.
* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The [[TheIgor mute, simple-minded assistant Groton]], and the DepravedDwarf Grazbo, are both working for Dr. Durea in the hopes that the serum he is devolping will cure their conditions.
* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: The [[TheIgor mute, simple-minded assistant Groton]], and the DepravedDwarf Grazbo, are both working for Dr. Durea in the hopes that the serum he is devolping will cure their conditions.
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* DepravedDwarf: Grazbo, the dwarf who operates the Creature Emporium for Dr. Durea, hates all normal sized people and is working for Durea because he believes Durea's serum will cure his dwarfism. He enthusiastically cheers on Groton in the latter's attempts to kill Mike and Judith.
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* MushroomSamba: Julia experiences one after after she has [[SlippingAMickey her coffee drugged]] at the coffeehouse. However, the whole thing is quite PG-rated and looks more like an amateur interpretive dance routine.
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* TheCameo: Famous author, editor and literary agent Forrest J. Ackerman appears as Dr. Beaumont, the first victim of the FrankensteinMonster.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Two sheriff's deputies empty their revolvers into the FrankensteinMonster when he is abducting the girl in Lover's lane, but their shots have no effect on the creature.
* LiteralDisarming: Dracula rips both arms off the FrankensteinMonster during their fight in the forest, before [[OffWithHisHead ripping off his head]].
* LiteralDisarming: Dracula rips both arms off the FrankensteinMonster during their fight in the forest, before [[OffWithHisHead ripping off his head]].
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* FireBreathingWeapon: Dracula blasts Mike with fire shot out from his one-eyed demon-headed ring, burning him to ashes.
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* SlippingAMickey: Rico orders the waiter in the coffeehouse to drug Judith's coffee after mistaking her for a cop.
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* SlippingAMickey: Rico orders the waiter in the coffeehouse to drug Judith's coffee after mistaking her for a cop.cop.
* ThrowingTheDistraction: During the fight in Dr. Durea's MadScientistLaboratory,, Mike throws a bottle across the room where it smashes, causing Durea to shoot at the noise, while Mike makes a break for the stairs.
* ThrowingTheDistraction: During the fight in Dr. Durea's MadScientistLaboratory,, Mike throws a bottle across the room where it smashes, causing Durea to shoot at the noise, while Mike makes a break for the stairs.
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: During the fight in Dr. Durea's MadScientistLaboratory, Groton smashes Mike with a Heavy wooden bench.
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* OffWithHerHead: Joanie Fontaine is decapitated by the [[AnAxeToGrind axe-wielding]] AxeCrazy Groton in the opening scenes.
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* OffWithHerHead: Joanie Fontaine is decapitated by the [[AnAxeToGrind axe-wielding]] AxeCrazy Groton in the opening scenes. Later, Dr. Durea is accidentally decapitated by his own guillotine.
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Rico, the drug kingpin in Venice, runs a biker gang that tries to abduct and rape Samantha.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dracula_vs_frankenstein.jpg]]
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* TheIgor: [[EvilCripple Wheelchair-bound]] MadScientist Dr. Durea is assisted by his mute, simple-minded assistant Groton, who murders young women with an axe to secure body parts for Durea's experiments.
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* OffWithHerHead: Joanie Fontaine is decapitated by the [[AnAxeToGrind axe-wielding]] AxeCrazy Groton in the opening scenes.
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* OffWithHerHead: Joanie Fontaine is decapitated by the [[AnAxeToGrind axe-wielding]] AxeCrazy Groton in the opening scenes.scenes.
* SlippingAMickey: Rico orders the waiter in the coffeehouse to drug Judith's coffee after mistaking her for a cop.
* SlippingAMickey: Rico orders the waiter in the coffeehouse to drug Judith's coffee after mistaking her for a cop.
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* OffWithHerHead: Joanie Fontaine is decapitated by the [[AnAxeToGrave axe-wielding]] AxeCrazy Groton in the opening scenes.
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''Dracula vs. Frankenstein'' is a 1971 American science fiction horror film directed and co-produced by Al Adamson. It stars J. Carrol Naish, Creator/LonChaneyJr, Zandor Vorkov, Anthony Eisley, Regina Carrol, and Angelo Rossitto.
Judith Fontaine (Carrol) is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out Joanie has become the victim of Groton (Chaney), an axe-wielding homicidal maniac working for Dr. Durray (Naish), who is really the last descendant of Dr. Frankenstein and is now running a house of horrors in an amusement park by the beach and performing experiments on Gorton's victims. One night Count Dracula (Vorkov) visits the doctor, showing him the original Frankenstein creation buried in a nearby graveyard. The doctor revives it and uses it to take revenge on his professional rivals.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Groton uses a double-bitted felling axe to kill his victims.
* EvilCripple: Wheelchair-bound MadScientist Dr. Durea, the last descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein, takes to murdering young girls for experimentation in hopes of perfecting a blood serum of his own creation with help from his [[TheIgor mute, simple-minded assistant Groton]]. Durea hopes the serum will heal his crippled legs and cure Groton of his condition.
* MadScientist: [[EvilCripple Wheelchair-bound]] mad scientist Dr. Durea, the last descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein, takes to murdering young girls for experimentation in hopes of perfecting a blood serum of his own creation with help from his mute, simple-minded assistant Groton. Durea hopes the serum will heal his crippled legs and cure Groton of his condition.
* OffWithHerHead: Joanie Fontaine is decapitated by the [[AnAxeToGrave axe-wielding]] AxeCrazy Groton in the opening scenes.
Judith Fontaine (Carrol) is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out Joanie has become the victim of Groton (Chaney), an axe-wielding homicidal maniac working for Dr. Durray (Naish), who is really the last descendant of Dr. Frankenstein and is now running a house of horrors in an amusement park by the beach and performing experiments on Gorton's victims. One night Count Dracula (Vorkov) visits the doctor, showing him the original Frankenstein creation buried in a nearby graveyard. The doctor revives it and uses it to take revenge on his professional rivals.
!!Contains examples of:
* AnAxeToGrind: Groton uses a double-bitted felling axe to kill his victims.
* EvilCripple: Wheelchair-bound MadScientist Dr. Durea, the last descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein, takes to murdering young girls for experimentation in hopes of perfecting a blood serum of his own creation with help from his [[TheIgor mute, simple-minded assistant Groton]]. Durea hopes the serum will heal his crippled legs and cure Groton of his condition.
* MadScientist: [[EvilCripple Wheelchair-bound]] mad scientist Dr. Durea, the last descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein, takes to murdering young girls for experimentation in hopes of perfecting a blood serum of his own creation with help from his mute, simple-minded assistant Groton. Durea hopes the serum will heal his crippled legs and cure Groton of his condition.
* OffWithHerHead: Joanie Fontaine is decapitated by the [[AnAxeToGrave axe-wielding]] AxeCrazy Groton in the opening scenes.
