A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.
Far more than just another B Movie When one sees a title like Frankenhooker one would hope for what I am crudly going to call "tits and gore", which would also be an apt label the Democrat Presidential ticket in 1992. On that front I am not disappointed, however I was struck by a surprising thematic depth. Frankenhooker is an exploration of gender politics and thematically speaking is one of the most interesting expansions of Mary Shelley's work... Please stay with me on this. Before anyone says "hang on this is much closer to Boris Karloff's Frankenstein than Mary Shelley's" I am fully aware visually you're quite right. However, firstly I would like to acknowledge Mary Shelley created this concept and I think it's appropriate to contrast the book as written by a woman with this film where gender is a key element. Secondly my argument is going to reference the central conversation in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein which is about man playing God. If you don't believe there are compar
