Trivia / House of Frankenstein

• Billing Displacement: Despite playing the only character connected to Frankenstein (and in the public eye usually referred to as Frankenstein) in a film titled House of Frankenstein, Glenn Strange, playing the monster for the first time, is not named on many of the posters (see main image for this listing) and is billed far down. Instead, it's Boris Karloff, returning to the series for the first time since 1939, but playing a new character, who is top billed.
• The Other Darrin: Glenn Strange plays the Monster, and John Carradine replaces Bela Lugosi as Dracula. Lugosi also played the Monster in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. It would probably be troublesome to have him be both, so instead he played neither.
• Similarly Named Works: There was also a 1997 miniseries titled House of Frankenstein. Although sometimes called a remake of this film, and produced with Universal's blessing, the film was more an inspiration.
• What Could Have Been: Kharis the Mummy was planned to appear. This would have resulted in the Mummy film series being added to the shared universe of the Universal Horror Films.
• You Look Familiar:
  • Lionel Atwill is once again an inspector, though one with all of his limbs still intact.
  • Olaf Hytten, who played the concerned father Hussman in The Ghost of Frankenstein, appears as Hoffman, the proprietor of the pub in Visaria.
  • And of course Boris comes face to face with his most famous role. The Monster even smiles in recognition!