Frankenhooker

Local title
Frankenhooker
Director
Frank Henenlotter
Country
USA
Year
1990
Festival
HÕFF 2024
Programme
HÕFF Retro
Genre
comedy
Subject
drugs, death, humour, absurd

After making horror history with Basket Case (1982) and Brain Damage (1988), the incomparable Frank Henenlotter unleashed Frankenhooker (1990) — the greatest transmutation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that you’ll ever see.

After accidentally murdering the love of his life, Jeffrey Franken decides to reanimate her with the help of a drug named Supercrack . . . and the body parts of a dozen streetwalkers. Feeling like a twisted mash-up between John Waters’s Serial Mom (1994) and Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985), Frankenhooker is a bad taste triumph that revels in sublime camp, gloopy gore, and neon-soaked dreamscapes. Plus an iconic performance by Patty Mullen as the eponymous title character.

Director
Frank Henenlotter
Screenwriter
Robert Martin, Frank Henenlotter
Cast
James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen
Producer
Edgar Ievins
DoP
Robert M. Baldwin
Editor
Kevin Tent
Composer
Joe Renzetti
Production
Levins-Henenlotter, Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment
Distributor
AGFA
World sales
Troma
Runtime
Language
English
Subtitles
English

Screenings

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Screening duration
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