1990 Directed by Frank Henenlotter
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.
James Lorinz Patty Mullen Joanne Ritchie J.J. Clark Helmar Augustus Cooper Louise Lasser Joseph Gonzalez Charlotte J. Helmkamp Kimberly Taylor Shirley Stoler Tom Hair Beverly Bonner Jennifer Delora Lia Chang Susan Napoli Heather Hunter Max Brandt David Lipman Vicki Darnell Sandy Colosimo Kathleen Gati Charles Raymond John Zacherle C.K. Steefel Shirl Bernheim Ari M. Roussimoff Gittan Goding James Smythe Gregory Gilbert Show All…
Frankenhooker (La Chica De Sus Sueños), Frankenhooker (Vicios diabólicos), Frankenputa, Frankenputa (Vicios diabólicos), La Chica De Sus Sueños
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was one crackwhore away from becoming a feminist masterpiece.
If you're looking for a thoughtful portrayal of the pain and sorrow of losing a loved one, the lengths that one will go to in order to be with them again as well as a sensitive study on the trials and tribulations of the prostitutes of New York circa 1990, then this is absolutely not the film for you.
If you're looking for a ridiculous and insane movie about a guy who blows up a bunch of hookers and reassembles their body parts to being back his fiance who was killed in a freak lawnmower accident that is absolutely offensive on pretty much every level then friend you have come to the right goddamn place because Frankenhooker is the gem…
Frankenhooker is a delightful mix of psychotronic sleaze and biting comedy to die for, a demented classic for sure and, if you ask me, one of the best films of the 90’s… a late night feast for the weird.
Falls in the same camp for me as something like Re-Animator in that it melds genres perfectly via the familiar monolithic story and the darkest of grin inducing humor, but unlike Stuart Gordon’s classic, Frankenhooker isn’t talked about nearly as much as it should be and neither is Frank Hennenlotter for that matter. There’s so much to love here for idiots like me… outdoor party lawnmower murder desecration, New Jersey (!) and seedy sex infested grime coated nyc, guinea pigs, muscleman pimp…
I mean it's a troma so we weren't expecting much to begin with lol. Despite all the sexploitation, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Stay away from super crack tho, it's a killer.. That ending is the chefs kiss!!
one of the things everybody knows about frankenhooker is the bill murray quote on every vhs/dvd box (& every henenlotter profile) "if you only see one movie this year it should be frankenhooker" (my synapse films disc credits it to "-Bill Murray (GHOSTBUSTERS, CADDYSHACK, ZOMBIELAND" ..thx guys) and tho ive never actually seen the context for it i always assumed it was a joke in an interview done while promoting..........well, i thought ghostbusters 2, but i just checked & thats actually a year earlier so lets say, quick change?? released a month after f-hooker wouldve still been kicking around disreputable theaters so, lets say bill's going thru times square, on his way to letterman or tom snyder or some local news…
young girl was instantly reduced to a tossed human salad, a salad that police are still trying to gather up, a salad that was once named Elizabeth
this is the trash that i like!!!
Henenlotter amps up the tongue in cheek humour for his gleeful horror comedy Frankenhooker.
This definitely feels like a more polished effort compared to both Basket Case and Brain Damage, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Certainly not when it results in such a fun movie.
The hooker combustion scene had me in tears from laughing (flying heads and all). On the one hand it was beyond phony, but on the other hand it was very well done? I don't know, I thought it was marvelous.
The dialogue was wonderfully silly too. I gotta give a special shout-out to Zorro (one of the greatest pimps in cinematic history) for woodenly delivering the best lines in the whole movie..
Still waiting for my bitches..
The guy is truly the stuff of legend!
Patty Mullen was great and her lip-twitch was super impressive!
Fun times watching this with Michelle.
The perfect mixture of comedic filth, super crack, exploding hookers, and Mary Shelley. Hysterics, gross, absurd, and 100% Hennenlotter.
All timer.
I've smoked a lot of crack with tons of hookers, but I've never been to a party where everyone brought their own crack pipe.
Can’t a woman just eat pretzels and make men explode with her electrically charged super crack body in peace
"Where did you get this arm? .... This is one of my bitches' arms" -Pimp,
- Horror Hunt #31 (Jan 2020): boxd.it/aya9m "Berlin 4 stars pick"
Classy.
A charming movie about a man who chops up prostitutes. This film has lots of wit, specifically with the satire of gender, and a surprising amount of funny parts. I like how gross and rundown everything looks and the last 30 minutes is really funny.
It's good.
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs - Joe Bob's Heartbreak Trailer Park 2022 - Film 2
"14 dead bodies, 27 breasts...well maybe 35 if you count....well you'll see." - Joe Bob Briggs
I HAVE BEEN HOLDING OFF ON WATCHING THIS FILM BECAUSE I KNEW IN MY HEART THAT IT WOULD EVERNTUALLY BE ON THE LAST DRIVE-IN! I WAS RIGHT!!! The great Frank Henenlotter is back in studio too. Oh fuck yeah, this RULES!
Jeffrey Franken works for the electric company in the daytime but his real passion is experimental medical research. The kind that got him kicked out of three medical schools. When his fiancé is killed in a lawn mower accident he embarks on his greatest experiment yet.…
