Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Frankenhooker (1990), Frank Henenlotter


Jeffery Franken loses his fiancee to an unfortunate lawn mowing incident. Coincidentally, he is a med school dropout/mad scientist type, prone to odd experiments with body parts and such! With the love of his life now in a million little pieces (a few of which he kept for posterity), he feels compelled to bring her back to life, no matter what. Being the smart guy that he is, he figures he can kill some hookers with little to no repercussion. He also figures that all hookers really love crack! So he uses his evil genius to create some SUPER CRACK. And by SUPER CRACK, I of course mean crack that causes spontaneous combustion upon ingestion. He must not know much about pimpin' though. It really is hard out there for a pimp, when all your hoes have exploded, thus forcing you into unemployment. Hell hath no fury like a clearly roided-out pimp scorned, my friends. I think you guys are smart enough to figure it out from here. But be sure not to fall asleep before the oh-so-shocking twist ending!

Given my immense love of Henenlotter's other films (The Basket Case trilogy, Brain Damage), you would think that I would have really enjoyed this movie. But no. Although I will say that there is about 10 minutes of this movie (towards the end) that I actually did LOL at. Watch out for cameos from Henenlotter regulars Beverly Bonner and Joseph Gonzalez. Or really, seeing as how this is the weakest film in his repertoire, skip this and watch Brain Damage for the 5 millionth time.

Best Line: "In a blaze of blood, bones, and body parts, the vivacious 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."

Grade: C

P.S. Mr. Henenlotter saved a lot of old exploitation roadshow reels, and sells copies (and writes hilarious reviews) of them for Something Weird. Check it out!

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