FRANKENHOOKER-1990-In NJ an overweight
girl named Elizabeth (former Penthouse Playmate Patty Mullen) is
killed by an electric mower. Her fiance' Jeffery (James Lorinz) who
works for the electric company and dabbles in science experiments
becomes obsessed with trying to recreate her. He keeps her severed
head in a vat of boiling chemicals and at night puts the head on the
table and has dinner with it (and reads it poetry) in his garage/lab
in the house where he lives with his mother (Louise Lasser). When he
gets tense he uses an electric drill on his brain. Like in THE BRAIN
THAT WOULDN'T DIE, Jeffery needs a new body for his beloved so he
hires some hookers (with a cliche pimp named Zorro) to find a bod
that will fit Elizabeth. But when they ingest some crack like drug
Jeffery has brought along they all explode and there are bloody body
parts everywhere. Jeffery takes all the body parts back to his lab
and stitches them together for a new body and brings it to life with
electricity (and a serum that only works on women).
What he gets is a scarred white faced hooker/zombie who escapes and
hits the street. Her first customer/victim is a short bald comical
white guy who explodes (and his decapitated head talks). Jeff
eventually brings Elizabeth back to life but she doesn't like it.
Zorro follows Jeffery home and decapitates him but the left over
hooker parts kill Zorro. Somehow Elizabeth manages to save Jeffery by
putting his head on a woman's body. He's not happy about that.
Zacherley (the voice Aylmer in the director's BRAIN DAMAGE) appears
briefly as a TV weatherman and Shirley Stoler from THE HONEYMOON
KILLERS, is a bartender.
This is another bizarre unique horror
outing from director Frank Henenlotter (BASKETCASE). It's gory but
very clever and funny and you'll never see a better “hookers
exploding while using crack” scene anywhere!
Thanks for reading!
