And we are back. Last week was messed
up for reasons we won't go into. Today we are going to explore more
obscure Italian horror films because...I couldn't think of anything
else to view. This day's viewing pleasure was financed by the
legendary Andy Warhol and
directed by exploitation Horror and Action guru Paul
Morrissey (Flesh,
Lonesome Cowboys, San Diego Surf, Trash, Women in Revolt, Heat,
L'Amour, Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula and The Hound of
the Baskervilles) This is
Flesh for Frankenstein a.k.a. Andy Warhol's Frankenstein,
Frankenstein, Up Frankenstein, The Devil and Dr. Frankenstein and
Andy Warhol's Young Frankenstein.
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| Well that is an impressive cazzo. |
Okay before we go
into the story this movie was rated X due to its explicit sexuality
and severe violence. The MPAA had a field day with this flick due to avant-garde style shooting and open sexuality that the only thing
that didn't make this a porno was penetration shots.
Our
movie opens in Serbia with the Baron (Udo Kier of Mark
of the Devil, Provocation, The Salzburg Connection, Blood for
Dracula, The Last Word, Trauma, Suspiria, Lulu, The Island of the
Bloody Plantation, Johnny Mnemonic, Blade and Shadow of the Vampire),
his wife the Baroness Katrin (Monique van Vooren of
Tarzan and the She-Devil, The Infiltrator, Gigi, Fearless Frank,
Batman and Wall Street) and
their two children dwell. His obsession with creating the perfect
Serbian race by creating the perfect male and female from yup, you
guessed it. The corpses of many a body. Need a obsession of a
perfect nose for each.
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| Honey get these subtitles off my throat. |
Busy
juggling two animated corpses, he is quite swamped with Male (Srdjan
Zelenovic of I Miss Sonia Henie and Flesh for Frankenstein)
and Female (Dalila Di Lazzaro of It Can Be Done Amigo,
The Scopone Game, Frankenstein '80, Tales of Canterbury, The Beast,
Il gatto, The Last Romantic Lover, Miss Right, Killer vs Killers,
Phenomena, Sicilian Connection, Paganini, and Breath of Life)
his assistant Otto (Arno Juerging of Die Kramer, Flesh
for Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, All Around Service, Ein Mann
will nach oben and Didi- Der Doppleganger)
brings his "A" game as true henchman form. This particular
Frankenstein's sexual nature is repressed by a need for domination as
he creates his new flesh golems. Yeah there was no support group for
his more risque fetish.
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| Um...yeah he could use a shrink. |
Unbeknownst
to Frankenstein, his male creature was once friends with a fellow
stableboy Nicholas (Joe Dallesandro of Flesh, Lonesome
Cowboys, San Diego Surf, Trash, Heat, Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood
for Dracula, Garden of Death, One Woman's Lover, The Climber, Black
Moon, Season for Assassins, The Streetwalker and Born Winner)
and his current occupation is plowing the Baroness like the back
forty. Must enjoy his work.
Under the complete
submission of the Baron, the creatures sat at the dinner table with
his family. As Nicholas serves the family, he recognizes the male
creature as his friend. Damned to get noticed, he follows the Baron
into his lab only to get captured by the good doctor.
Will the animate
zombie orgy continue?? How screwed up will the Baron's kids be??
So some
interesting trivia. The Cinecitta was originally founded in 1937 by
Benito Mussolini, his son Vittorio and the head of cinema was Luigi
Freddi. Part of the Fascist era but several parts of the studio were
bombed during the bombing of Rome in WWII. In the 50s rebuilt prio
to Ben-Hur. Some of the battered sets were used for HBO series Rome.
So with its
graphic content I can imagine the kiddies might want skip this one.
So necrophilia, nudity and gore aside I am sure it's always what
Mary Shelley envisioned.
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| So do I get my down payment, ma'am? |
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