The character's names (Franken, Shelley) clearly make reference to the stoty Frankenstein.
Do you think the main character's first name is a reference to Jeffrey Combs (the actor who played the mad scientist in "Re-animator"), or is it just a coincidence ?
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Not to mention that it came out the same year as Bride of Re-Animator, and has a similar plot.
"We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow." - Charles Bronson
I thought it was a reference to Re-Animator as well, as I'm a huge Stuart Gordon fan - plus, you have to admit that Stuart Gordon produces movies of equal camp value (perhaps a little less campy with Dagon of course). Shelley is obviously a reference to Mary Shelley, the Modern Prometheus's (or Frankenstein) author.
shareI thought so as well, and even took the whole movie as a kind of parody/response to Re-Animator. I like Stuart Gordon's movie, but its sexual politics are kinda icky --- the girlfriend basically exists to scream, get naked and then, well, be 'accosted' by a severed head. Frankenhooker takes the same ingredients and same tone but is, I dunno, almost more 'responsible' in its presentation --- here the lead character not only gets his comeuppance for how he views and treats women, but in a truly twisted, hilarious sort of way.
The genius of Henenlotter, of course, is that he would take an anti-objectification theme and bury it in a exploitation movie called 'Frankenhooker.'
Thank you for picking up on the feminist slant!!! Nobody does!
[cowriter of Frankenhooker Robert Martin]
Yeah, the main character does seem to be sort of a rip-off of Herbert West. Of course the actor in this movie doesn't have half the acting chops as Jeffrey Combs.
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