Description: FRANKENHOOKER (DVD1990 - 2011) BRAND NEW - HORROR - COMEDY - SCI-FI PRODUCT INFORMATION PROVIDED BELOW ~ Product Description From Frank Henenlotter, the creator of the Basket Case trilogy and Brain Damage, comes Frankenhooker, a gory horror-comedy twist on the Frankenstein legend. When Jeffrey Franken's Fiancée is chopped to pieces by the blades of a remote-controlled lawnmower, he uses his dubious medical knowledge to try to bring her back to life. He reassembles his beloved Elizabeth using the body parts of New York City's finest prostitutes, and resurrects her during a heavy lightning storm. Unfortunately for Jeffrey, his dear Elizabeth's brain is scrambled and she runs amok on 42nd Street, turning tricks and bringing high-voltage death to her customers! FrankenhookerTheatrical release poster From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frankenhooker is a 1990 American black comedy horror film co-written and directed by Frank Henenlotter. Loosely inspired by Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, the film stars James Lorinz as medical school dropout Jeffrey Franken and former Penthouse Pet Patty Mullen as the title character. Plot Jeffrey Franken, a young man who lives in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, is a power plant worker and an amatueur scientist who specializes in bioelectricity. He is about to marry his fiancée Elizabeth. At the birthday party of Elizabeth's father, Jeffrey presents him with an automatic lawnmower as a gift, but when Elizabeth tries to demonstrate it, she is caught in its path and gruesomely killed. Jeffrey, in his grief, begins plotting to use his knowledge of circuits to rebuild Elizabeth and bring her back to life. His grief drives him to have mock dinner dates with the few pieces of Elizabeth he could salvage, as well as performing self-trepanations with a power drill to help himself calm down. He decides to make the perfect new body for Elizabeth, by harvesting the body of a New York City prostitute. After meeting several women and their abusive pimp Zorro, a muscle-bound temperamental crack dealer, Jeffrey tricks Zorro into letting him rent every one of the women for a single night to find the one with the perfect body for Elizabeth. Inspired by a news report about crack cocaine causing the deaths of many New York prostitutes, he then develops a "super-crack" which he finds causes living beings to explode. Deciding he is doing nothing wrong as crack will probably kill the prostitutes anyway, Jeffrey lures them all into a hotel room under the guise of a "medical examination" and marks the women with the body parts he wants for Elizabeth. However, as he begins to have second thoughts, the prostitutes all find the bag of super-crack and all smoke it despite Jeffrey's pleas, causing them all to explode into pieces. Zorro hears the commotion and rushes to the room, only to be knocked out by the flying head of one of his women. Jeffrey hurriedly puts the body parts into trash bags, promising to restore the women once he brings Elizabeth back. After picking the perfect body parts and sewing them and Elizabeth's head together into a single body, Jeffrey uses the lightning from a nearby storm to shock Elizabeth's new body to life again. However, her body and face move awkwardly, and she can only repeat what the previous women said before they died. The "Frankenhooker" escapes the basement and begins looking for customers in New York, who end up exploding from electricity when they try getting intimate with her. Jeffrey goes looking for Elizabeth and finds her at a bar. Zorro is there too, and upon hearing Elizabeth mention his name and recognizing her body parts, he angrily strikes her so hard that her head mostly detaches from her body. Jeffrey evades Zorro and takes Elizabeth home to repair her neck and revive her again. After bolting her head more securely to her new body, Jeffrey awakens Elizabeth, finding her memory restored. At first, Elizabeth is impressed that Jeffrey brought her back, but becomes furious when she realizes what her body is now made of and how Jeffrey obtained the parts. Jeffrey tries to explain himself, but he is attacked and decapitated by Zorro, who has followed him home. Zorro then attempts to drag Elizabeth away with him, justifying himself by claiming that most of her new body belongs to him. However, the spare prostitute parts have also been reanimated by the storm and merged into multiple grotesque limbed monsters, which overwhelm Zorro and drag him away into their storage cooler to his presumed death, along with his drugs. Elizabeth decides to revive Jeffrey via the same procedure he used on her, but since the process only works on female bodies, Elizabeth is forced to put Jeffrey's head on a body made of the prostitutes' body parts to bring him back. As Jeffrey awakens, Elizabeth happily says they will be together forever as Jeffrey moans in horror at his new female body. StorylineA medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident, and decides to bring her back. 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 get parts for his girlfriend. TriviaThe film cost $1.5 million making it Henenlotter's most expensive (at the time), but there were still budgetary issues. The producers told him they had used up all of the allotted funds for pyrotechnics during the exploding hookers scene to which he replied "How the f**k am I gonna film the lab scene?!" He ended up calling in a favor to do some "unlicensed pyrotechnics" for the shoot. Lorinz recalls the guy finishing the setup and telling him "Don't worry, it's maybe safe." Product details MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated) Director : Frank Henenlotter Media Format : Dvd, NTSC, Widescreen, Special Edition Run time : 1 hour and 25 minutes Release date : November 8, 2011 Actors : James Lorinz, Patty Mullen, Louise Lasser, Jennifer Delora Studio : Synapse Films Country of Origin : USA Number of discs : 1 THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LOOK AT MY LISTING ~ PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER ITEMS.SHIPPING WILL BE MEDIA MAIL SO PLEASE ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO RECEIVE. THE "ESTIMATED" ARRIVAL TIMES ARE SOMETIMES TAKING LONGER THAN EXPECTED. MEDIA MAIL IS THE MOST AFFORDABLE WAY TO MAIL, BUT THIS TAKES THE LONGEST TIMES WITH THIS TYPE OF DELIVERY BY USPS IF DELAYS ARE AN ISSUES PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE FROM ME I RATHER YOU NOT TO BE DISAPPOINTED OVER SOMETHING THAT I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER. 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Video Format: NTSC
Music Artist: Joe Renzetti
Case Type: DVD
Rating: NR
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Sub-Genre: Creatures/Monsters, Detective, Gore, Investigation, Comedy Video, frankenstein spoof, science runs amok, dark comedy, Monster, body horror, grindhouse film, creature feature, violence, parody comedy
Studio: Synapse Films
Edition: Unrated Edition
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Type: MOVIE: HORROR - COMEDY - SCI-FI
Format: DVD
Region Code: DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)
Language: English
Release Year: 1990
Producer: James Glickenhaus, Edgar Ievins
Actor: James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen, J.J. Clark, C.K. Steefel, Shirl Bernheim, Judy Grafe, Helmar Augustus Cooper, Louise Lasser, John Zacherle, Charlotte J. Helmkamp, Kimberly Taylor, Shirley Stoler, Joseph Gonzalez, Ari M. Roussimoff, Tom Hair, Beverly Bonner, Jennifer Delora
Features: Commentary, Widescreen, 4 Featurettes, Trailer
Run Time: 85 MINUTES
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Horror-Monsters, Mystery / Suspense, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller
Movie/TV Title: Frankenhooker
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Season: N/A
