Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker is an enjoyable comedy horror B film. It is silly and funny with lots of nudity and a plot that is just plain absurd.
Bland James Lorinz is Jeffrey Franken, a highly strung young man interested in medical studies and doing strange experiments with body parts in his house. When he gets stressed he kind of peps himself up by drilling his head. In short he is a little bit loopy.
When his girlfriend Elizabeth (Patty Mullen) dies in a bizarre lawn- mowing incident Jeffrey hits the streets and the hookers looking for body parts so he can rebuild Elizabeth. After a crack cocaine incident where all the hookers blow up he has all the body parts he needs with a few more to spare.
When he rebuilds Elizabeth, she becomes Frankenhooker with the short term memories of all the prostitutes and she hits the streets with her platforms looking for victims.
It is cheap looking with some frankly bad acting yet somehow it works. I would not be surprised if this is a sleazy, cult, camp B movie horror classic. The ending seems to have some kind of existential post modernist feminist message!
Bland James Lorinz is Jeffrey Franken, a highly strung young man interested in medical studies and doing strange experiments with body parts in his house. When he gets stressed he kind of peps himself up by drilling his head. In short he is a little bit loopy.
When his girlfriend Elizabeth (Patty Mullen) dies in a bizarre lawn- mowing incident Jeffrey hits the streets and the hookers looking for body parts so he can rebuild Elizabeth. After a crack cocaine incident where all the hookers blow up he has all the body parts he needs with a few more to spare.
When he rebuilds Elizabeth, she becomes Frankenhooker with the short term memories of all the prostitutes and she hits the streets with her platforms looking for victims.
It is cheap looking with some frankly bad acting yet somehow it works. I would not be surprised if this is a sleazy, cult, camp B movie horror classic. The ending seems to have some kind of existential post modernist feminist message!