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Frankenhooker (1990)
★ 6.3 · 373 ratings on TMDB
A terrifying tale of sluts and bolts.
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.
DirectorFrank Henenlotter
The emergence reading
Frankenhooker keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing exploitation, gender, grief.
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