I'm thinking about the time gap between House of Dracula and Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.
And just, how terrible it must have been for Larry.
Small TW for Larry's attempt on his life in the movie, though I don't go into details about it.
That he had been through so much, lost everyone, begun to push people away and go in hiding as he desperately tried to find a cure. Even felt it was hopeless, and tries to end his own life.
And then, going through that whole movie of House of Dracula, he's finally given hope. And not just hope, whatever the man did in that weird old horror movie science fiction sense, seemed to work. It was tested, he got to go out and saw the moon and have nothing happen to him.
And that was supposed to be the end, he had gone through so much, his character even had, to finally have his curse reversed and he could finally re-enter society again without always fearing every full moon he'd turn into a wolf and begin killing all those around him. (Though I do imagine he'd probably have horrible anxiety and PTSD from everything).
Now we move on to Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. A few years later. And we see Larry, somehow knowing Dracula and that he needs to be stopped, and that Dracula somehow has control over the Monster. But, he is also turning into a wolf again, and fears it.
So I'm just thinking about the time between the movies.
I imagine it didn't happen right away. Or even just the next full moon after the movie. It seemed to be working, so it probably did, for a little while.
To go over the fear, relief and joy the few times it didn't happen again. Supposedly, he would have begun to try to set up a life again. How far did he get? How long did it last? How much of a life did he set up again?
...Bit random and it is in another canon but for the purpose of pure speculation, in Monster Force which takes place years later one of the characters is Larry's descendant, Luke Talbot, who has had the curse affecting his family for a long time. Even though that is another Universe, another canon, just for thinking on it that brings a question of, did he start a family? Just beginning one?
And then it happens. Whatever the cure was, didn't last. Perhaps Larry was finally beginning to trust it wouldn't happen again, perhaps he was terrified it would, and thinking, how terrible it must have been when it began. When he could feel the change begin.
In the fashion of these movies I imagined he killed and any life he had been setting up was suddenly gone, and again, he'd go into hiding.
What I also find interesting is he clearly knew who Dracula was. Also, did he see the Monster again? While Dracula was controlling him, he seemed to know which would also suggest he dealt with him that way as well.
So if it was a small few years or many, I get the impression they dealt with each other before, to the point of the next movie Larry is most concerned with stopping him. Just, something I find interesting.
Further wondering, particularly considering how in Legends Collide Dracula used Larry, did Dracula have something to do with the "cure" backfiring on him? For the curse returning? And that is part of his motivation to stop Dracula above all else?
Some thoughts, and thinking about all that time in between the movies.
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