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Frankenhooker: The creator of low budget cult shocker ‘Basket Case’ (1982) conjures up a demented re-imagining of the classic ‘Frankenstein’ tale. That features a whole host of ludicrous ideas, like: death by lawnmower, explosive crack and enough fake limb flying scenes to satisfy any exploitation fan. When crazed scientist Jeffrey Franken's fiancé is accidentally killed by a super-remote controlled lawnmower - that he created - he becomes obsessed we bringing her back to life. Keeping her head and a few stray body parts, in his purple collagen laced liquid solution, Jeffery becomes convinced that he can return her to life...now all he needs is some spare body parts. In search of those parts, Jeffrey makes his way to the seedy sex district of New York. Where he acquires a plethora of skanky hookers, from the muscle-bound pimp Zorro. Later, at a wild party, Jeffrey gives the girls his special concoction of 'super-crack', which has the adverse effect of making them explode into the parts he desperately needs to bring his love back to life...Yes that’s the plot; your eyes are not deceiving you. Similar in style to director Henenlotter's previous entries in no budget film-making, this mad as a box of spiders interpretation of Mary Shelly's classic tale of re-animating the dead, features a host of bizarre, downright demented scenes. From the aforementioned sight of hooker pieces flying through the air, to a man being knocked out by a decapitated head and the final body swapping, sex change finale. This no taste shocker is both entertaining and terrible in equal measure. The enjoyment one gets from all this, is how willing one is to embrace the bad effects, acting and dialogue, and instead wallow in the sheer madness of this sluts and bolts black comedy horror. While 'Frankenhooker' is certainly not a good movie, it's most defiantly an enjoyably bad one. If you’re a fan of violent, low-budget horror cinema, then maybe this might just be for you. On the other hand, if you're one of those refined film watchers that demand fine acting, seamless special effects and a coherent story...well then f**k off to 'Gladiator'. 'Cause what the hell are you reading a review entitled 'Frankenhooker' for anyway?!
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Hmm...Survival of the Dead felt to me like nothing more than a slightly slicker straight-to-dvd film (which it effectively was I guess) but I just don't think that's good enough. It's true that there's been an over-saturation of zombie films over the last ten years due to them being in vogue again which means there's going to be loads of poor films to wade through but it doesn't make Romero's last two films any better for me (and I really enjoyed Land of the Dead incidentally) Dead Snow is definitely one of the standout films of that genre of recent years though; I agree with that completely |
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Diary grossed $5.3 million dollars worldwide and under a million of this was taken in the US. |
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This afty, I watched 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End' It's not a phrase I use often, but all I can say is WTF?
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download.jpg It amazes me that something made over 80 years ago is funnier than 99% of comedies made now. Timeless classics
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DVD Rulers released a home made Blu Ray of this, which was apparently quite good, but I think they've gone under, pirating being illegal and all.
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