ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN   On Saturday, October 31--HALLOWEEN-- the Charles will host a special children's matinee of ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN at noon. Anyone under 18 years of age will be admitted free. Adults $6. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN will screen again on Monday and Thursday. (No free admission on Monday and Thursday). SHOWTIMES Saturday, October 31 - Noon; Monday, November 2 - 7 PM; Thursday, November 5 - 9 PM. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948 Charles Barton) Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert, Jane Randolph. 83m. bw. Archival 35 mm film print. Not Rated. When Universal Pictures made "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," the studio revitalized its baggy-pants franchise with this amiable, fun-for-all monster mash. The saturnine Abbott and the ever-mugging Costello show vaudevillian panache as baggage handlers who have the misfortune to process the coffins of Count Dracula ( Bela Lugosi) and Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange). Add Lon Chaney Jr.'s tortured Wolf Man and you've got a snug-fitting context for Costello's infantile frenzies. The heavies maintain their deadpans and get the biggest laughs. (Strange's Monster does a horrified double-take at his first sight of Costello.) The last shot features Vincent Price as the voice of the Invisible Man, a come-on for future - and inferior - comedies of terror. -Michael Sragow (The Baltimore Sun) View Trailer NEXT REVIVAL: November 7, 9, 12 THE HUSTLER (1961)