Trivia note: The weatherman predicting the thunderstorm Jeffrey uses to reanimate his girlfriend is 60s horror-show host Zacherley.
I only picked this tape up for one reason-- my favorite Penthouse Pet, Susan Napoli, is in it as 'Stephanie Ryan.' Yeah, she's in it for all of five minutes, and doesn't have any lines. She barely has time to take off her top and french-kiss Kimberly Taylor before she explodes! Ah well. Pet of the Year Patty Mullen looks nice too, and she's genuinely funny! :)
FRANKENHOOKER is by far one of the best "bad" movies of all time. From the talking video box to the extra nudity in the unrated version, this film is chock full of memorable scenes and dialogue. I can't decide between the guy at the bar and Zorro the Pimp as far as who my favorite character is. The guy at the bar says the immortal line, "When a man loses his ho's, he loses everything". To which Zorro replies, "I didn't lose 'em, they just blew up!" Later, Zorro utters my favorite line in the movie. Pounding on the hotel room door, he yells, "Hey b***hes, open up!"
I loved this film! The exploding hooker scene is one of the best scenes in movie history.
I bought this film on DVD the other day. Having read the back of the box it sounded fairly entertaining but how wrong could I have been? Dull, slow, terrible acting and effects. Total s**te.
When I first saw this movie, I did not know what to expect. Now that I have, I have to say that it was not all that bad. Of course a lot of people tell me that Frankenhooker signifies the bottom of the barrel for the Frankenstein genre, but who cares? I enjoyed it. If there was an award for Top B movie of the week, this would get my vote. Does anyone agree? Please let me know Bmoviephiles. Thank you for listening. RENT THIS FILM NOW!
I rented this movie for my semi monthly crappy movie night. Of the other movies rented: Dolamite, Black Gestapo, and various unsundry others, Frankenhooker was by far the best. I absolutely loved the super crack. Every scene in which the pimp is present is rife with fantastic dialogue. Where's my money at b***h for example. The movie also takes a controversial, but oh so true look at the seemier side of New York at night. I recommend it to all.
One of the best dead girl friend, exploding hookers b-movies of all time. much like the excellent Re-animator (number 1 not 2) but with a different flavor. Good story with nice turns, and characters with semi-relistic behavior; (for insane people).
4.5 green globs.
Dont praise this movie. Except for the hooker body parts chasing the crack pipe, an amateur peep show would be more entertaining (whens the last time you rented a video for a quarter?)
I know the director (Frank Henlenlotter-Basket Case series), he went to High School with my psychiatrist. Oh, and great gratuitous nudity.Zombie Hooker's rule!
Oh my God, I love this movie! James Lorinz is great as the eccentric mad scientist, jersy boy, jeffery franken and Patty Mullen is awesome as his girlfriend frankenhooker. i seriously think patty mullen looked really cute in that doctor's outfit in the last scene. The Hooker leftovers resemble belial of basket case a little too much, well, at least the honey mutant does. If you love this movie as much as I, send me a message on instant messager at BRAINDEAD DM!
Though it has its cumbersome and slow moments, there is enought zany personality to be found in Frankenhooker to make it worth a look. One of the most out there satires of Frankenstein (and Jerseyites) made, Frankenhooker makes me wish Frank Hennenlotter would be able to make more movies.
Top film directed by "Basket Case & Brain Damage" Frank Henenlotter. Has some great scenes of whore's exploding and how Frankenhooker begins working the streets, a'la 1987's remake of Blood Feast, "Blood Diner". But tell me would you really want to pick her up?!!
Only for psyched trash-freaks.
You know I first heard about this movie in the 3rd grade from a friend. All these years I thought it was just an urban legend. Thank God for the internet.
This is my favorite movie ever. I see the romance in it. I wish someone loved me enough to kill hookers with super crack, and make me a new body.
The good parts are great but some of the comments that don't like the movie have a point. There's like 20-30 minutes of good scenes, but otherwise a whole lot of boredom and bad acting.
Wow. All I can say is Wow. This isn't a bad movie at all; I wouldn't even call it a B-movie, this is an excellent example of what skillful hands can do despite a minimal (War-On-Drugs-funded?) budget. The script is absolutely wonderful and very original (and if you look really hard, there might even be some symbolism in it). The acting is for the most part actually quite acceptable (well, ok, so the last movie I saw before this was Laser Mission...) at least the first hour, better than most late-night TV movies at least, and the actors manage to keep a straigt face. Zorro The Pimp is excused because after all, he is Zorro The Pimp (and he sure is tough-guy enough to be Governor of some american state any day).
The FX are cheesy but only because of the low budget (and you can't really demand anything else from a movie about exploding hookers) and they don't hurt your viewing pleasure. Especially the background scenery is mostly quite impressive, you get a feeling the producers really tried to make the movie as realistic as possible (taking the general storyline into account). IMHO the director was REALLY skilled, managing to pull this very unorthodox movie off as nicely as he did.
For one thing, despite the wacky and not very serious story, the movie is very consistent and there are no giant logic gaps which otherwise seems to be mandatory in most late 80's B-Movies (and well, in most Hollywood pictures) and also the characters have quite a few lines that aren't directly pushing the story forward (always a good sign IMHO).
Too bad the acting gets worse at the end of the movie, and the ending was quite unsatisfying. I also thought it lacked a real zombie-hooker killing spree and there was definately too little blood (he is drilling into his head yaknow). But this is absolutely one of my new favourite movies.
Now, it's obvious that Zorro The Pimp did in fact NOT die, so let's all hope for a spin-off movie about him! Come to think of it, isn't it obvious that he was the hero of the movie?
The effects from Frankenhooker fit perfectly for this movie. The scene in which the crack whores blow up is done seemlessly & was ripped off by the Austin Powers movie when the fem-bots blew up. Henenlotter did a much better job than the director of Austin Powers.
Frankenhooker is one of the best B movies ever made and deserves to be in everyones DVD collection.
Thank, well who or whatever for this website wherein I now have written and visible proof that this movie even existed!!! I am telling you!! Let it suffice to say that no one I have mentioned this film to over the years has any knowledge as to what I am talking about. I always describe the scene where the pimp is in the bar lamenting about the untimely demise of his stable of hookers at which time a bar buddy offers consolation by saying "Hey man, good luck with your exploding b***hes, and s**t." That is true comedy and I don't give a damn about Lucy or Bozo.
A legend of a film, all i can say :)
Looks so sweet I bought it as a Valentine present for my son....Am I a bad mother???javascript:void(0);
Oh put that phone down...he's 34!!!
this movie is so classic. i love the exploding hookers. wow. is there a hooker horror movie that can top this one.
One thing I love about this movie that no one ever seems to point out is this.... As soon as the 'monster' comes to life, the electrical storm is suddenly over!
Also, how come everything he takes out of his liquid storage is always dry? And why does he only wear his gloves occasionally when taking things in or out??
Nobody else mentioned Frankenhooker was actually pretty hot?
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I love this movie, it is truly amazing.
Wow! Another movie I thought I made up as a kid! I really need to build up my own arsenal of B-Movie selections. I'd love to see this again. This is indeed an awesome crappy movie. I don't need to go on about it... the main review says it all.
But I always remembered it as she gave him a hooker's body, because she was p**sed about him giving her a hooker's body.