Frankenhooker

Starring: Beverly Bonner, Lia Chang Dvd Release: 10th November, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Colour, Full Screen, NTSC, Region 0 Encoding

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Frankenhooker is a black comedy movie directed by Frank Henenlotter & starring James Lorinz as Jeffrey Franken. Former Penthouse Pet Patty Mullen plays the title character, wearing a fatsuit in the beginning of the movie. Franken is a young mad scientist who re-builds his dead girlfriend using the body parts of prostitutes. The film contains quite a lot of gore/violence, but all played for laughs. Although we do not see Dr Frankens girlfriend chopped up by the runaway remote-controlled lawnmower, her blood is spattered all over a lawn gnome. Later, when the hookers smoke the super-crack, they all explode. However, no blood or guts are shown, just fake limbs & heads everywhere. A character is beheaded with a machete in one scene. Frankenhooker was released on home video in both rated & unrated versions. The unrated version has considerably more nudity than the cut version that has played on cable over the years. Theres no simulated sex, unless you count the two hookers that go nuts from the super-crack & begin kissing.

Frankenhooker is an inspired work of genius. The plot could almost be Shakespearian, if old Will could have written with this much style. If you like your films with lawnmower accidents, brains in jars, crack & hookers you cannot afford to miss this.

The basic plot is mans girl is killed , man invents super-crack, man trys to reanimate girl using hookers body parts. Its the time old tale of young love flourishing in the face of adversity - I would strongly recommend the directors of Titanic have a butchers at this before making the same mistakes again. My only critism of this film is that it needs more Jar Jar Binks & Celine Dion.

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