Flesh For Frankenstein
1973
Udo Keir stars in Paul Morrissey's by turns disgusting and hilarious retelling of the classic Mary Shelley story. Read more
| Starring | Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Arno Juerigng |
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| Director | Paul Morrissey |
| Genres | Horror |
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Flesh For Frankenstein
Udo Keir stars in Paul Morrissey's by turns disgusting and hilarious retelling of the classic Mary Shelley story.
| Starring | Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Arno Juerigng |
|---|---|
| Director | Paul Morrissey |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 22 May 2006 Production year: 1973 |
| Format | DVD |
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Explicit blood-letting and violence overwhelms director Paul Morrisey's shockingly funny exposé of the venal grime behind Victorian aristocracy. Udo Kier is wonderfully arrogant and bad-tempered as the Nietzschean Baron dismembering the local townspeople to build the perfect Aryan male and his female mate. Originally shown in excellent Space-Vision 3-D (the reason why sharp instruments are constantly being thrust into the camera) a strong stomach is still needed to witness the flattened down lurid gore and sickening splatter. Full of camp quotable dialogue and a particularly hilarious sex scene between Joe Dallesandro and Monique van Vooren.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Carry on Frankenstein!
This was one mad movie when it was released back in 1973, and it off-the-wall tone still shines through thirty-plus years later.
Don't think any of this is to be taken seriously: Udo Kier (Blade, Shadow of the Vampire) is Frankenstein with a thick Serbian (German?) accent prone to Nazi-like rants about constructing the perfect human, his assistant Otto rolls his eyes and licks his lips at the sight of disembowelled organs, the Professor's wife/sister is a raving nympomaniac who beds the servant (Joe Dallesandro with a thick New York accent and probably one of the intentionally worst actors ever) who leaps into Socialist tirades about overcoming capitalism when he's not bedding the women.
And the gore, while a little amateurish by todays standards is still way over-the-top and more in the style of Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Evil Dead then anything else.
A must for anyone who likes their movies bizarre, hilarious or gross (and a bonus if you like all three!) If you like this, check out Blood for Dracula. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Little Joe meets the Baron
I haven't seen this movie, or its sister Blood for Dracula, for about 20 years and they're as good/bad (delete where applicable) now as they were then!
Great fun if you're a Horror fiend or a Warhol/Morrisey junkie. Note that the main feature also has a director's commentary shared by Paul Morrisey (interesting) and an excruciatingly patronising and loud film-nerd (you'll want to kill him) together with a couple of DVD 'extras' (stills gallery and screen tests).
NB: RipGuard 'protected' DVD, so might not play so well on older (or less capable) DVD players... -
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