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Frankenhooker starts at the New Jersey home of Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) where at a birthday party a freak accident with a remote controlled lawnmower leaves his fiancé Elizabeth Shelley (Patty Mullen) in pieces all over the garden. Medical school dropout Jeffrey is devastated & decides to combine his medical & electrical knowledge to bring Elizabeth back to life, with only Elizabeth's head to work with Jeffrey has to find her a new body & decides to travel to times square in New York to pick up prostitutes in order to construct the perfect body for his beloved Elizabeth... Co-written & directed by Frank Henenlotter this horror comedy is quite enjoyable if your in the right mood, a silly mix of horror & sex Frankenhooker is fun if nothing else. The script is obviously a parody of the classic novel Frankenstein with Henenlotter's brand of bad taste humour & quirkiness the main thing going for it, from lawnmower accidents to exploding prostitutes to electrifying sex Frankenhooker is not the type of film for those with delicate moral sensibilities. Like a lot of films like Frankenhooker it's a mixed bag, some of the humour & crudeness works & it's occasionally amusing while at other times the jokes & gags fall a bit flat while horror aspect is also varied with some weak effects spoiling a few scenes. The character's are pretty cartoon like with the re-animated Elizabeth quoting prostitute pick up lines & Jeffrey inserting a drill into the back of his head for inspiration, as you do. Frankenhooker is quite likable & at only just over 80 minutes long the pace is decent & it doesn't outstay it's welcome but there are better horror comedies out there, watchable enough & positively amazing when compared to many modern day low budget horror films but I didn't love it or anything. There's plenty of female nudity & bare breasts on show even if some of the actresses who play the hookers aren't the best looking, to go with the nudity there's some gore as well including a couple of decapitations, some severed limbs, some blood splatter, some fake looking exploding prostitutes, a brain in a fish tank & a mangled mass of body parts that comes to life at the end. The final shock twist ending is sort of spoiled by the poor special effects but at least the makers tried to put as much on screen as they could even if they didn't have either the talent or budget to do their ideas justice. Apparently director Henenlotter improvised the pitch for Frankenhooker to a producer when his original didn't impress the money men, he has a small cameo as one of the passengers on the subway train. With a supposed budget of about $2,500,000 this was filmed in New York & some of the seedy nightlife locations add a certain dubious atmosphere. The acting is alright, no-one seems to be taking things seriously which is just as well although it's the Frankenhooker herself Patty Mullen who gives the most watchable performance here. Frankenhooker is a fun little horror comedy with plenty of sleaze & bad taste humour, it's not amazing or life changing but it is fun for what it is & I liked it well enough.

Frankenhooker (1990) ** 1/2 (out of 4) More madness from director Frank Henenlotter who takes an outrageous concept and turns it into camp. Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) loses his girlfriend after she's ran over by his electronic lawnmower. Instead of sitting around crying he decides to use his medical knowledge and bring her back to life but since she was cut up he has to use various body parts from hookers. FRANKENHOOKER has a great concept but I will admit that the actual story is paper thin but thankfully that doesn't take away from the charm. There are hundreds of different low-budget horror movies out there but you can always tell when you're watching something from Henenlotter because he can take the most outrageous things and make them seem rather normal in the bizarre universe that he creates. I think there are a lot of good things going for this film including the various New York locations, which really add a lot to the atmosphere. There are some seedy locations and these really make you feel as if you're right down there in the middle of all these hookers, pimps and drugs. Another good thing the film has going for it is the fact that it's not afraid to be over the top in both the nudity and camp level. There's all sorts of * women on full display, which will please most viewers but we also get some hilarious scenes involving some super crack that the hookers take and that makes them blow up. The sequence of them blowing up is without question a highlight. At just 84-minutes the film has a very good pace and it thankfully never outlasts its welcome. Lorinz is decent in the lead role but it's Patty Mullen who clearly steals the pic as the creature. The walk she brings the part is just perfect and I really loved how much fun she seemed to be having. With a film called FRANKENHOOKER you really shouldn't be expecting high art but the film delivers on a camp level and it's good fun.

A strange film, frankly disgusting in many ways but also extremely funny, especially the scenes with the Frankenhooker herself which is a magnificent performance from the actress in question, combining every Hollywood Hooker cliché you can think off. I also like the fact that the mad scientist is actually a sympathetic character, he invents the supercrack but in the end he doesn't give it to the hookers and when they take it anyway he tries to stop them. The ending is truly weird but then any film with this premise is going to be. A shame they never made a sequel, it would be interesting to see where this oddest of odd couples eventually ends up Weird but a little wonderful

Man, its funny when people don't get a good joke that you do, and even better when they get p***ed off about it. Pin Heads and Primadonnas need not apply; Frankenhooker is a monument to real bad taste and super sick fun. If you need to BELIEVE in the story, the hero, the *HOPE*, whatever - then you are paying to be lied to. That makes you a schmuck. Some dullards can't see that their standards and criteria for Quality are just products of an increasingly corrupt, deluded society. Huh?! You are all mindless, bleating sheep, nervously keeping to the herd. Or, Fuzzy Robots, programmed for outdated moralistic consumerism. No, really. I won't bore you with a rehash of the details, I'll bore you with my opinion. I gave it 9 Super Crack Rocks out of whatever I could spare. Just watch the freaking thing and relax... it all only gets worse. I'm gonna see "Brain Damage" and "Basket Case." Peace.

I saw this movie over the past weekend after searching it out for the last 6 months. I liked Hennenlotters past work (especially the original Basket Case) and thought the premise was hysterically funny. What I found was that the movie fell under the weight of its own ambition. I will not bother rehashing the plot as thats been done in the other user reviews so it kinda defeats the purpose of me doing it as well. I will elaborate on what a found was done wrong. Number 1 is the acting, I was not expecting a Polanski or Bergman film but the acting would have been better left to crash test dummies. There was no feeling in the lines being delivered and I felt totally disassociated from what I was seeing. 2 would be the special fx, now i know this movie was done on a budget but goddamn the fx make Basket Case or Evil Dead 1 look like Star Wars or The Matrix compared to this. I mean you could tell the limbs flying were rubber very good for an Ed Wood effect if you like that sort of thing (I don't!). 3 is the most shocking and it was the story, aside from the super crack and piecing together dead hookers everything else was too dumb for words and really cliché'd. There is an old line saying there a thin line between clever and stupid unfortunately this is the latter. A great idea perfectly wasted.