Joe Dallesandro, Monique van Vooren, Udo Kier, Arno Juerging, Dalila Di Lazzaro

Udo Kier is the Baron Frankenstein, attempting to create a new race of humans out of body parts. He wants to mate his male creation to his female creation so he figures he needs the brain of a real la...( read more  read more... )dy's man. By mistake, he beheads a man about to enter a monastery to become a monk. The creature shows no interest in his female companion, but the Baron's sex starved wife shows interest in him. He ends up killing her squeezing her to death while they are performing sex. In the finale, the Baron has his hand smashed off by an iron gate and a spear struck through him with his liver dangling on the end. This film is filled with lots of soft core porn, nudity, and splatter.

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R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Paul Morrissey

Release Date: March 17, 1974

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DVD Release Date: December 22, 1998

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  • November 18, 2009
    I caught some of this on late night TV. Why on Earth would anyone want to sit through 90 minutes of the worst acting, worst direction and worst dialogue you have EVER seen to be rewarded by the sight of unconvincing rubber internal organs covered in scarlet poster paint...? Utte...( read more)r, utter garbage.
  • June 22, 2009
    Not particularly good but worth a watch for Udo and Joe alone.
  • June 24, 2008
    This is the heartwarming tale of an incestuous necrophiliac doctor (Udo Kier)who is building a pair of humans to procreate a whole race of...well, I'm not really sure what or for what purpose. Some of the most bizarre scenes you will ever see.

    Oh my...where to begin? The part...( read more) where the good doctor is married to his sex maniac sister (Monique Van Vooren)? Or the part where they have two children that come across as more sinister versions of Wednesday and Pugsley Addams? Or the part where the doctor gets it on with his female creation, first by putting his hand in her gut and massaging her entrails while his eyes roll back in his head and he moans in ecstasy, then having "conventional" intercourse with her dead body, while berating his servant as a filthy pervert for wanting to watch? Or maybe when the servant has his own way with the female creation by licking her freshly-sewn abdominal scar? Or maybe the scene where the good doctor's wife/sister noisily sucks the armpit of houseservant Joe Dallesandro during a sexual encounter, while the children spy on them through the window? After a view of Joe's nude form, I can't say that his armpit would be the first part I would be attracted to. To each her own, I guess.

    I think my favorite part is when the doctor (not actually ever referred to as Frankenstein, but only "Baron") describes his plans for his male and female creations to reproduce while music box-style tinkley music plays softly in the background.

    I could also go into the terrible acting or the complete lack of believable scenery or the laughable gore effects. Or maybe while everybody else has thick German accents, Joe has his normal New York accent, even though he's supposed to have lived with these people all his life. But I shouldn't be giving EVERYTHING away, should I?

    I'm tempted to give this more stars just because it's so damn bizarre that it almost is worth seeing...but not quite. My only regret is that I never got to see it in its original 3-D format.
  • December 17, 2007
    To know death Otto, you have to fuck life... in the gall bladder!
  • September 28, 2006
    Funny, gory take on the Frankenstein legend is a wild ride with one of Udo Kier's most memorable performances.
  • November 9, 2009
    If Tommy Wiseau played every character in a movie this is it. But it's only due to everyone having broken english accents. Lots of blood and great acting (because it's not so great) but that's the idea.
  • September 9, 2009
    want to see this movie
  • June 12, 2009
    Amazingly bad performances from almost everyone, dumb writting, but is so sick and fucked-up that you forget about its flaws. It was kinda funny -in a weird way- to see a liver hanging from a spear... See it if you like to see a tragedy in which guts are scattered all over the pl...( read more)ace.
  • May 17, 2009
    Extremely shocking and sickening, but the music score is awesome. The film is excellent for what it is.
  • May 16, 2009
    Ultra-gory, trashy and camp version of the Frankenstein story with the always great Udo Kier as the Baron. Good fun for gore fans.

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