Frank Henenlotter has consistently refused the label that is normally assigned as director of horror films, since throughout his career always was listed as a director of films Exploitation . This character got much recognition in the circuit of theaters midnight with his debut film titled Basket Case, who with his obscene and violent humor has become the film is probably his most known and then will shoot two sequels. is just after filming the second part of Basket Case Henenlotter get that make her very particular vision of the history of the scientist Victor Frankenstein, who moved in the late eighties with a series of drafts of his very own irreverent and bizarre films.
The film recounts the miserable life of Jeffrey Franken, a young man who despite having been expelled from three schools of medicine, a passion for experimenting with the secrets of biology, giving rise to aberrations like a brain with a eye to having a pet inside a fishbowl.
Jeffrey's life is going well until his fiancée suffers a bizarre accident with a lawnmower, the dismembered at a birthday party. After the unfortunate incident, the hero steals the head of his dead love and decide to seek a perfect body to revive it, using a serum that has developed and a little electricity.
Unfortunately Henenlotter humorous ability is not as sharp, so Frankenhooker shows the same level of genius that his name and although the story takes turns funny, as the development of an alternative crack is so potent that pops to all those who consuming it, or a group of mutants that arise from the combination of amputees members of a prostitute, the rhythm is very irregular and most of the sequences, far from being hilarious, end up being ordinary with a hint of self-restraint that should not exist in a film that puts the label Exploitation.
The phrase that the DVD was advertised, attributed to Bill Murray, in which he said "if you see one movie this year, it Frankenhooker Should Be", I did expect a masterpiece of the grotesque or black humor, with the additional incentive that the star was the legendary Penthouse girl, Patty Mullen. But my disappointment is absolute, shame on you Bill Murray.
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