Frankenhooker

In New Jersey, Jeffrey (James Lorinz) is a talented inventor in love with his bride-to-be Elizabeth (Patty Mullen). During a barbecue to celebrate the birthday of Elizabeth´s father, she activates a remote controlled lawnmower that Jeffrey built for his father-in-law. However she stays in front of the device and her body is cut into pieces. Jeffrey studies how to bring Elizabeth back to life and realizes that he will need body parts. He drives to New York to get the necessary parts from prostitutes but his experiment loses control and he blows-up several women with an exploding crack he had developed. Now he has the necessary parts to build his fiancée back, but when Elizabeth flees from his laboratory, Jeffrey has problems with the pimp Zorro (Joseph Gonzalez) that lost his girls.

The cult "Frankenhooker" is one of the best black-comedies ever made. The plot is a grotesque joke with "Frankenstein", but the result is hilarious. James Lorinz and Patty Mullen steal the film with cynical and lovely performances. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Frankenhooker - Que Pedaço De Mulher" ("Frankenhooker - What a Piece of Woman")

Zorro is a beefed up super pimp, who goes around kicking ass and taking names. Zorro, and Jefferey's invention of "Supercrack" are the two things that make this movie hilarious. "No,no,no,no the question is who are you, and from what I've been hearing, your ass is mine and I'm taking possesion right now" " My girls are the best, the best to look at, the best for fun. You want the best, you gotta pay." " No no no no, they didn't leave, they didn't go nowhere, they just blew up. F***ing exploded, one minute they my bitches, and the next minute, pieces all over" These are all quotes from the man Zorro.

It is a frightening as well as ironical movie with violent, offbeat , unpleasant events, including lots of blood and gore and resulting to be disappointing at times , but entertaining as well. A contemporary and tongue-in-cheek Frankenstein version, inspired by Mary Shelley's classic novel. Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) is a nice guy, he didn't mean to mow his fiancee (Patty Mullen) down on the front lawn. Jeffrey lives with her mother (Louis Lasser) while makes experiments. Jeffrey, nerdy would-be Frankenstein, as a laboratory guinea pig explodes after inhaling fumes from his patented Super-Crack. But sometimes bad things just happen to good people and an accident gos wrong. After the brutal and sudden killing of his girlfriend, he embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life, though the results aren't entirely successful. Then he creates Frankenhooker, the girlfriend with more than a heart. Luckily Jeff thought to save her head and decides to pair it up with the body of sexy streetwalkers. Revived by the obligatory bolt of lightning, Elizabeth is not quite old self, even her clients find her too hot to handle. A series of circumstances have led her to become a mad scientist capable of resurrecting bodies and making them a monstrous extension of all the rage and frustration that he has had to live and is having to live. A terriffying tale of prostitutes and bolts !. Death can be cured!

Typical Frankenstein plot adding a lot of comical set pieces, lurid images, much nudism and gory scenes: when his bride-to-be is turned into a tossed salad by a runaway lawnmower, Jeffrey salvages her head and reconstructs her with breasts, torsos and limbs gleaned from hookers he has tricked into cracking up in similar fashion . Director Frank Henenlotter indulges his penchant for sleaze to the max, throwing in a few bad-taste puns and a little therapeutic head-drilling for laughs. The resulting fragmented mess will no doubt keep some in stitches, but it is definitely less than the sum of its body parts. A contemporary Frankenstein that examines, through terror and humor, the brutalities, vices, horrors, corruption and sleaziness in New York in the nineties. Prostitution

The film is somewhat reminiscent of the much better ¨Deadly Friend¨ (1986) by Wes Craven also with a teenager from a simple suburban neighborhood who creates a kind of Frankenstein for his own purposes and the recent ¨The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster¨(2023) by Bomani J. Story . Although perhaps this ¨Frankenhooker¨ has more to do with Stuart Gordon's ¨Reanimator¨ and ¨The bride of Re-Animator¨

The motion picture was mediocrely written/directed by Frank Henenlotter. Rescued low budget pictures and put them out on his Frank Henenlotter's Sexy Shockers From The Underground label for Something Weird Video. Regarding his labeling as a horror film director, Frank said the following: ¨I never felt that I made "horror films." I always felt that I made exploitation films. Exploitation films have an attitude more than anything else -- an attitude that you don't find with mainstream Hollywood productions. They're a little ruder, a little raunchier, they deal with material people don't usually touch on, whether it's sex or drugs or rock and roll¨. Frank Henenlotter is known for Basket Case I, II and III, Bad Biology (2008), Brain Damage (1988) , Chasing Banksy (2015) and Frankenhooker (1990). Frank also made documentaries, such as: That's Sexploitation! (2013) Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010). Frankenhooker (1990) rating: 5/10. Only for gore with drops of humor enthusiasts.

Probably, "Frankenhooker" is one of the best trash comedies Tromas has never released..! It´s a brilliant parody on Stuart Gordon´s "Re-Animator", Bill Murray is a huge fan of it and the fans of flicks like "The Toxic Avenger" will surely love this film: the humor is silly but entertaining, the F/X are pretty cheap and there are a lot of naked chicks running over the screen. The finest surprise arises when you don´t expect it: watch out for the 3 second cameo appearance of Rutger Hauer!!!

This movie is a cautionary tale about the dangers of pushing the boundaries of science too far. Hands down, it's the best movie ever made that features exploding crack whores. It also reminds us of the importance of lawn mower safety, and offers some exciting new possibilities for owners of power tools. Throw in its sensitive handling of foreign relations ("What are ya! Some kind of Swede?") and "Frankenhooker" is a classic. It's an amazing cinematic experience that is weird enough to be both deeply disturbing and hilarious at the same time. The people who made this movie are sick, God love 'em.