Frankenhooker
I'm sorry I didn't indulge the films of writer/director Frank Henenlotter back in the '80s and '90s, when I was immersed in a plethora of low grade horror. Might've eaten them up more then I do now. His films, which include the BASKET CASE series and BRAIN DAMAGE , definitely stand out among this disreputable lot. Deftly stretching their low budgets and utilizing grimy NYC locations so vividly. Perhaps the most audacious is 1990's FRANKENHOOKER, a wildly entertaining guilty pleasure that was chic trash enough to earn a Criterion Channel inclusion some years ago. One that even received an endorsement from Bill Murray. Hohokus, New Jersey. Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) is a med school dropout/mad scientist who would rather tinker in the lab than join his fiancee Elizabeth (Patty Mullen) at her father's birthday party. When she finally drags him out, she meets an untimely end when she gets in the way of the automatic lawnm...
