This film has been my favourite movie since it came out. Frankenhooker will always be my favourite movie.

With 'Frankenhooker', chances are you get what you expect. 'Trash' and 'screwball' describe the knockabout humour on display here as Jeffrey (James Lorinz) brings back to life his decapitated fiancée by 'building her a new body of Manhatten street prostitutes'.A lot of the first part of the film relies on Lorinz, who is required to carry scenes by himself. He is somewhat expressionless but enters into the spirit of the proceedings with little inhibition. The second part is indebted to Patty Mullen as Elizabeth, parading under patchwork prosthetics, being seduced by a selection of horrendous macho 1990's muscle men. Her jerky wide-eyed movements recall a certain sense of Elsa Lanchester from the original 'Bride of Frankenstein (1935)'.There's plenty of flesh, lots of rubber limbs and some fairly graphic titillation on offer. Only when Elizabeth regains her memories does the grotesque humour make way for actual emotion, but that's fine. "There wasn't enough left of you to fry an egg with," explains Jeffrey in one of his final pronouncements.An acquired taste, especially now its garish, coarse visuals have a very dated quality, this is what it is. Deliberately goofy, wobbly, sleazy, popcorn nonsense worth a giggle.

"Frankenhooker" is a movie whose entire first half is dictated by its title. Yeah, it's about a mad scientist, a Victor Frankenstein type, who uses hooker body parts to create an undead woman. The small moments of originality in this first half of the movie are gobsmackingly lame. For example, the main character finds inspiration for his science experiment by, get this, drilling through his brain with a power drill. Yeah, that'll do the trick. I'm not joking: he doesn't know what to do next, pulls out a drill, goes through his brain with it and, ta da! Instant breakthrough. Why there's no blood whatsoever as a result of this, nor the need for instant medical attention, is unexplained.Another weird, unexplained twist: he makes a type of crack cocaine that, when smoked, causes the smoker to explode. That's not the weirdest part. While searching for "the perfect woman" among a bevy of whores, the hero brings a brick of explosive crack rocks to the party, but when the girls find them, does everything he can to stop them from smoking them, to no avail.Huh?If he didn't want these hookers to smoke the crack, why'd he bring it to them? Why did he make it in the first place?Huh?The second half of the movie is better, simply by virtue of featuring the "Frankenhooker" of the title, played by an actress with more charisma than every one else in the movie. You get used to the lifeless hero, who doesn't even seem obsessed, or that interested in, his work. The undead hooker makes a very welcome change."Frankenhooker" is regarded as a horror comedy, but aside from the title it doesn't contain a single joke. I guess the rather predictable twist ending could be seen as humorous.Overall it is a movie with a totally lame first half, and a second half which is far too little, far too late.

At the home of Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) an accident with a lawnmower leaves his fiancé Elizabeth Shelley (Patty Mullen) in pieces all over the garden. Medical school dropout Jeffrey steals her head and decides to use his knowledge to bring Elizabeth back to life, by acquiring body parts from local prostitutes, killing them using exploding crack cocaine. However, the project backfires on Jeffrey when Elizabeth turns into Frankenhooker! Elizabeth then embarks on a killing spree in New York, uttering phrases such as 'Wanna date?'With a limited budget, most of the special effects are rubbish. It isn't very funny, not erotic, not horrific. Just weird, mainly. The directing isn't that special either. The acting is poor, dialogue lazy and no-one seems to be taking control over the whole thing. Ultimately it's Patty Mullen who gives the most watchable performance here. She's really very good. Just a shame she didn't do another film. And it's because of her I give it 5.