Flesh for Frankenstein

A delightfully bad movie. Seemingly intentionally campy, it is fraught with bad acting and shock scenes designed for it's original 3d release. However, it is sumptuous in scenic detail and should be watched for that reason. Also, take note of the lab and it's similarity to the Rocky Horror Picture Show lab. All in all, a classic, cult movie.

I retract my previous Rapenstein comments.

Reinvents the way you look at gallbladders.

This is way better than the actual story of Frankenstein, endless self-pity is replaced by hand-fucking body cavities and instructions on what sewn-together body parts can be safely used by the discerning necrophile.

Pretty dull. I can see how this has camp value (especially in 3D), but that only makes up so much of the film -- the rest is just mediocrity incarnate, like a bad Frankenstein play by a bunch of 2cool4school 17 year olds who think injecting it with some sex and gore will make it any more entertaining. Good last shot.

The actual quality of the film making isn't so bad, and it does have a reasonable amount of blood and guts, which I like. It doesn't make any sense, and ends up a lot more stupid than it begins. It is kind of interesting, though, that every thing that Andy Warhol touches turns to crap. Worth it for blood and guts that is relatively unheard of in the early 70's.

"To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life... in the gall bladder!" Udo Kier is the 70s Tommy Wiseau. Quotable as hell and bares a strong resemblance to Rocky Horror but ultimately a bit too boring to be a thoroughly entertaining good-bad movie.

This Frankenstein has the best methods

Meh. It wasn't horrible, but frankly somewhat boring. Alot was done purely for shock value but lesser things I found more disturbing. I literally screamed at the screen when the chick sucked the dude's armpit. Oh those sound effects! Udo can fuck a gallbladder all day long but if I heard that sucking sound one moment longer I'd have puked!

I can't tell if this is painfully bad or inspired. Add one brain of a homosexual monk to an already fucked up Frankenstein premise, where Udo basically rapes a dead body with his hand, and you have a film that will always appeal to a particular clientele, however mixed its execution might be.

A sleazier version of the Frankenstein story? Sure, sign me up. Too bad the execution was pretty unenaging most of the time. Udo Kier's eksagaretet akksent vas prettie hielarijus though.

WTF?

Morrissey's facelift of the old Mary Shelley tale -- now a deadpan charade of beautiful young people searching, scissoring, and stitching in the laboratory for more beauty yet. Backed by Carlo Ponti, Morrissey is for the first time a man of means (European forest and castle locales, elegant musical accompaniment, Luigi Kuveiller's mellifluous camerawork, and, above all, the magical 3-D process), and he parades his new wealth with a barely concealed delight.

Easily the best Frankenstein movie ever, even topping those of Whale. Yeah, I said it. "To know life, Otto, you have to fuck death in ze gallbladder" A classic, through and through.

Ludicrous, but curiously entertaining. Udo Kier hams it up beautifully, mangling the shoddy dialogue with a gloriously strong accent. The rest of the cast don't seem to be able to remember their lines very well; the acting isn't great. This would have been pretty gruesome if the gore effects had been better. It seems to have been made on a reasonable budget; I'm sure the 3D version would have been a hoot. Reminded me a bit of Rocky Horror...

Best worst dying monologue ever, still a great movie though!

Lacks the cruel wit of Blood for Dracula.

Totally unique, but also unusually similar to the source material. This works, not just as a horror, but also as a drama and a comedy. The theme of family is also very interesting (Frankenstein is clearly creating his monsters to compensate for what a failure his own family is, which makes the ending somewhat bittersweet.)

Ham-handed, paper-thin, gimmicky tosh.

This isn't even campy fun or outrageously shocking, it's just a tedious badly acted and badly shot mess. Not to the level of unbelievable incompetence, though, just thorough mediocrity. The worst part is that it does seem like it had some sort of budget but it wasn't used for anything other than cheap gore and quality sets and costumes.

Oh what I would give for a Wiseau/Sestero remake.

I adore how Udo Kier put everything of him into this piece of art. Hilarious above all. Joe Dallesandro's popping eyes were also something you did not expect to see.

na come on! that was kinda fun. dallesandro is great as the macho, woman-beating ladylover. and kier is as always just great. "the most goriest horror comedy".

forfærdelig pseudo-katosk-soft-porn-splat

The Frankenstein family reinterpreted as suffering a generational curse à la the Labdacids. A pornographic sensibility without doubt, but the gorgeousness of the cinematography and the music certainly leaves an impression. The combination of Udo Kier and the overture from Tannhäuser would prove so irresistible that they would be reunited fourteen years later in von Trier's EPIDEMIC. According to some the filmmakers were only interested in shock value but for me the shock was how much I liked it.

Not bad. Immortal line: "To know death, Otto... you must fuck life in the gall bladder"

Released in the U.S. as "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein", even though he is listed as only one of four producers. Definitely a cult movie, which in turn makes it all a question of taste. For me this flick managed to be both disgusting and boring at the same time... rather a neat trick, in point of fact.

Hilarious. I really want to see it in 3D.

A portrait of homosexual angst and deviance.

At least the set designers wanted this to be something more than campy soft porn; they did a pretty good job of trying to add a little class to this (the mechanical birds were cute). The dialogue takes hilarity to another whole level. But it's all around corny.

Proof that back in the day Udo Kier could do no wrong. Toe knee :-)

Udo Kier is a hell of drug. Certamente um dos filmes mais divertidos dos anos 70, um splatstick muito digno que traz Kier e van Vooren como os verdadeiros pais de Frank n' Furter. DVD Dark Side Collection

Sleazier than Frankenstein, but not as much as Rocky Horror.

I don't know if it's the German accent or the queen attitude but this version of Dr. Frankenstein is so gay. He just casually throws out sentences like "Two girls? One man? He must be very powerful!"

OVERRATTED

The cinematography is lustful, but everything else taste poorly.