Part of Midnight Movies
Fri, Apr 17 at Midnight: Introduction from musician and Belcourt staff member Quinn Hills | BUY TICKETS
When a tragic lawnmower accident derails young love at its most endearing, the only hope for fixing the cruel vicissitudes of fate is Science! Perhaps that mysterious new drug that makes people explode has the answer? Or maybe the singular maternal charms of Mary Hartman herself, Louise Lasser. No grave can stop a determined lover with a need to flout the laws of death.
After making horror history with BASKET CASE and BRAIN DAMAGE, the incomparable Frank Henenlotter unleashed FRANKENHOOKER — the greatest transmutation of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN that you’ll ever see. Feeling like a twisted mash-up between John Waters’s SERIAL MOM and Stuart Gordon’s RE-ANIMATOR, FRANKENHOOKER is a bad taste triumph that revels in sublime camp, gloopy gore and neon-soaked dreamscapes. Plus an iconic performance by Patty Mullen as the eponymous title character.
“It's the sort of film that would probably be most fun to see around midnight.” —Vincent Canby, New York Times (Jun 15, 1990) “I watch horror movies to have a good time. FRANKENHOOKER is one of those good-time movies for me.” —Craig Lucas, pophorror.com
