This movie hits a lot different once you're no longer a naive 18 year old suburban midwest boy and you're now a 39-year-old sex worker living in a big city. Frankenhooker herself is a bit of a mascot and an icon.
All killer, no filler. Not a single moment of seriousness. Just nonstop cheap thrills all the way through. Henenlotter really had the formula down with his best films, making him one of the kings of this kind of movie. Though BRAIN DAMAGE is still definitely my favorite of his films, Frankenhooker delivers and certainly holds a special place in the history of the B-movie, for good reason.
Hardly anything about it makes sense, and it never even tries to, and that's why it rules. It just has a good time with every dumb step that it's story takes. Gnarly practical effects, thrilling nonsensical deaths, endless jokes that are so bad they're good, and of course Patty Mullen looking like an absolute babe in all that purple flair! It really does feel and function like a perfect swan song for the entire decade of 80's schlock transitioning into the other kind of soft-core-digital-synth weirdness that was the early 90's in film/TV. Everyone should familiarize themselves with Frankenhooker.
All killer, no filler. Not a single moment of seriousness. Just nonstop cheap thrills all the way through. Henenlotter really had the formula down with his best films, making him one of the kings of this kind of movie. Though BRAIN DAMAGE is still definitely my favorite of his films, Frankenhooker delivers and certainly holds a special place in the history of the B-movie, for good reason.
Hardly anything about it makes sense, and it never even tries to, and that's why it rules. It just has a good time with every dumb step that it's story takes. Gnarly practical effects, thrilling nonsensical deaths, endless jokes that are so bad they're good, and of course Patty Mullen looking like an absolute babe in all that purple flair! It really does feel and function like a perfect swan song for the entire decade of 80's schlock transitioning into the other kind of soft-core-digital-synth weirdness that was the early 90's in film/TV. Everyone should familiarize themselves with Frankenhooker.