CheerupSilver
Very Cool!!!
NekoHomey
Purely Joyful Movie!
SeeQuant
Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
shawnnuzzo
This is a really bad movie. Not bad in a fun or campy way, just bad as in lazy.Don't get me wrong, I enjoy trashy fun horror comedy type movies. But this is so poorly written that it is unwatchable.You know that Writing 101 lesson when they tell you "show, don't tell"? Watch this movie if you want to see why that's so important. Frankenhooker is all telling and no showing.There are literally scenes where the main character talks to himself for five minutes trying to explain the plot of the movie. The plot is simple enough that these boring soliloquies are completely unnecessary.And there are other scenes where, I guess, the writer was too lazy to write dialogue, so the characters just scream.The Frankenhooker actress is funny and can contort her mouth at odd angles. I don't think she ever started in anything else, which is unfortunate. Her time on the screen is only thing even remotely entertaining about the movie.Thankfully for the movie-going public, the rest of the cast and crew never did much else.
msjaywolf
This film has been my favourite movie since it came out. Frankenhooker will always be my favourite movie.
Claudio Carvalho
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")
trashgang
I follow the blu rays coming out on the Arrow Video label, they are so well done. Naturally by following that line sometimes they deliver classics and sometimes the flick isn't really your stuff. I was a bit afraid of this one. Frank Henenlotter isn't my thing, I didn't like Basket Case and I surely didn't like Brain Damage. Frankenhooker did have a nice script, just looking at the title says enough. And doesn't we all remember Weird Science (1985)? It starts of rather good and I enjoyed it, I even laughed a bit with the lawnmower scene. But once Elisabeth is being killed by the lawnmower it becomes a typical Henenlotter flick. There's so much talking and nothing really is scary or whatsoever. The performances are okay, James Lorinz came out of Street Trash (1987) to take the lead as Jeffrey Franken. He went further to act in rather B flicks, the most famous one he was in was Robocop 3 (1993) but even there it was a small part. But most people were looking out for Patty Mullen, a Pet of the Month in the August, 1986 issue of "Penthouse.". The pictures taken were steaming hot and she even became pet of the year in 1987 and revisited her nude pictures in 1988. Her acting career was rather short, she only appeared in 2 horrors, this flick and Doom Asylum (1987). For doing a lot of nudity she only showed her nude ass and a small glimpse of her tits in Frankenhooker although it has a lot of juggs being shown from the hookers, the most famous ones are those tattooed ones from Jennifer Delora playing Angel. It was her first 'major' production. She was in a lot of exploitations and low budgets before playing hookers, the most famous being the Electric Blue series. On the effects part they worked rather good, still, it's low budget and it shows like the drilling machine not working in a close-up but still is drilling into a head, or the body parts were you can easily see that they are fake. But it's maybe the best of all Henenlotter's flicks, but it's so recognisable. Just look at the creators at the end, doesn't they look like the Basket Case creature? Still not my thing but I can understand that it will have his following now that it is out on Blu Ray. Gore 0/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 1/5
