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Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)



Baron von Frankenstein (an out-of-control Udo Kier, a guy with amazing eyes) has created a beautiful female monster out of stitched together body parts and now yearns to make a male version as her companion. Meanwhile, his dissatisfied wife Katherine (Monique Van Vooren) has the ever-so-studly Joe Dallesandro (whose New York accent is way out of place) to fulfill her sexual needs. The baron mistakes Dallesandro's virginal (possibly gay) friend as him, cuts his head off and eventually puts together a male creature, in an effort to mate his two subjects.



Joe Dallesandro ... Nicholas, the stableboy

Monique van Vooren ... Baroness Katrin Frankenstein

Udo Kier ... Baron Frankenstein

Arno Juerging ... Otto, the Baron's assistant

Dalila Di Lazzaro ... Female Monster

Srdjan Zelenovic ... Sacha / Male Monster

Nicoletta Elmi ... Monica, the Baron's daughter

Marco Liofredi ... Erik, the Baron's son

Liu Bosisio ... Olga, the maid

Fiorella Masselli ... Large prostitute

Cristina Gaioni ... Farmer, Nicholas' girlfriend

Rosita Torosh ... Sonia, the prostitute

Carla Mancini ... Farmer

Imelde Marani ... Blonde prostitute



Director: Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti



Runtime: 95 mins



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Audio 1: German

Audio 2: English



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This outrageous horror parody has incest, necrophilia, bloody stitches, gutglobs spilling out of stomachs, impalements, severed body parts, rape, lots of nudity and sex, campy performances and bad taste dialogue. The ending is hectic, nasty and totally hilarious as all the characters end up dead in a big cartoonish pile of bloody bodies (Carlo Rambaldi did the FX).



It was filmed back-to-back with ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA by the same director, producers and some of the same actors (both were "supervised" by Antonio Margheriti) and was originally released in an X-rated 3-D version with all kinds of gross stuff thrust right at the viewer (wish I could have seen it that way!).



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This is clearly the superior of the two films that Paul Morrissey filmed at Cinecitta studios (Rome) during the early 1970s. It's the typical Frankenstein story with the Morrissey's spin on it.



And I suspect that it has a lot to do with Antonio Margheriti being involved since he is famous in Italian horror circles for the gore effects he brings to films. Especially the scene where the male monster (Srdjan Zelenovic) rips open his stomach sutures, exposing his organs in an act of suicide. Very anatomically correct.



Udo Kier is probably the best reason to see this film, however. His hammy acting skills are tops! His version of Frankenstein is so demented, I guess the German accent adds a lot to it. Usually it's an American or English actor who plays Frankenstein so having a real life German (speaking in English, of course) adds to the atmosphere.



And of course Joe Dallesandro's New York accent sounds totally out of place here, just as it did in BLOOD FOR DRACULA. He sounds like a male hustler hanging out in Times Square instead of an Italian stable boy



Also hideous is Monique Van Vooren as Baroness. Good gawd, the Dallesandro character must have been real hard-up in order to sleep with that old hag.



Still, it has decent atmosphere and the Criterion DVD uses a widescreen print that looks crystal along with production stills of the movie, secondary commentary track by Morrissey who has some revealing comments about the film, and some silly, pseudo-intellectual commentary by Maurice Yakowar that a trashy film like this doesn't deserve.



Worth seeing mostly for Kier's presence.



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Anybody who is even remotely interested in the counterculture underground has seen at least one Andy Warhol movie.



Although well known for being an avant-garde painter, Andy Warhol was also a quintessential underground filmmaker. He did things like film the Empire State Building for 8 hours (EMPIRE), S & M in New York City Hotel (THE CHELSEA GIRLS), and even a 24 hour movie (****). But with director Paul Morrissey, dabbled in stories with extreme sexual overtones.



FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN is Andy Warhol's version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic. German actor Udo Kier is the Baron himself, who wants to create a beautiful male from dead body parts (Warhol's sexual overtones). Even then, it's more of Paul Morissey's work rather than Andy Warhol.



This is a uniquely bizarre film to watch, but i kind of felt that too much of it had nothing to do with Shelley, but more or less Warhol. There are too many sexual overtones throughout, especially homosexual. Also the only Warhol superstar that has a role in this is pretty boy Joe Dallessandro. No Brigit Berlin or Nico.



If you're into bizarre movies, than this really is a treasure. As with anything Andy Warhol has ever done, love it or hate it.



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# Originally filmed in 3D, although most presentations found today are in 2D.



# While some Italian prints give second unit director Antonio Margheriti credit as co-director, Udo Kier has stated that Margheriti had nothing to do with directing the movie.



# Both this film and Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!! (1974) shared many of the same sets and the same principal cast (Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, and Arno Juerging).