 Welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, but before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we are drinking Starman Steam Ale. Today we are going to bring to you 1990s Frank and Hooker, just the name of it. This movie is directed by Frank Hennan-Lotter, and he hasn't really done too much, but he's done some classic horror, and that is Basket Case. He did brain damage. James Lawrence is in this, and he wasn't in a whole lot that's notable, but one movie we've got to mention is Street Trash. Frank and Hooker starts off. The lead character, Jeffrey, is at a family gathering with his fiance, Elizabeth, and for some reason he's in the kitchen with this weird brain thing that's got this eye in it. What the fuck is this? Why did you bring it to a family gathering, and no one bats an eye, and oh, Jeffrey's just in the kitchen with his brain thing. That was a big eyeball in the middle of it. It must be her dad's birthday, and Jeffrey made a special gift for him. A lawn mower that can be controlled with a remote. Elizabeth is like, oh, that's so cool. I'm playing with it, and it starts mowing. Elizabeth, get out of the way. Plows over her, and so Jeffrey is super distraught about Elizabeth's death, and he's in his room all by himself with the brain thing. His mom comes in because she's concerned, you know, Jeffrey, you've got to get over this. You go back to med school. You'll find somebody else, but he won't have any of that. He wants to rebuild Elizabeth, and he's trying to, like, stimulate himself to build it, to think a certain way. He takes out this drill, and he starts, he starts to drink. No pain? Yeah. No blood or anything? Yeah. He sits down and has a nice dinner with Elizabeth's head, and he's feeding her the wine, and pouring over the place, and pizza for that nice dish. He needs parts to rebuild Elizabeth. I'll use prostitutes selling their parts, and I need parts. He goes out to the red light district. This is good. I like this. I think a lot of good stuff here. Yeah. You got any money? Yeah. He tells him what he needs. He needs all these women, and he says he's got money, so they tell him to talk to Zorro. He said, oh, I can set you up. I got the best women. Pulls out to, like, a little thing of crack. Ah, okay. The way he's going to kill these prostitutes is to make a super crack. So Jeffrey goes back to the prostitutes, gets them all together in a big hotel room. This fucking thing's pissing me off. So Zorro's waiting downstairs. This bitch is taking too long. Of course he's all muscles. Jeffrey's, like, sizing them all up, opening their legs. He's, like, underneath. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that'll do. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's great. I like that one. That one's great. I'm kind of hesitant about giving them the crack, right, because I guess his consciousness is getting the best of them. One of the girls sees the crack, and, oh my god, you have crack? He's, like, no, no, don't take that. No, no, no. But they start taking it. They're smoking it. They start to explode, one at a time. The super crack was way too super, and starts fucking exploding them. Super duper crack. Now he can get the parts that he needs. Big barrels of the land. How'd that get in there? I don't know. That's the one I want. Yeah. Dumps all the spare parts and everything back into, like, his fucking freezer. He has all that purple shit, and he recreates Elizabeth. He revives her with lightning from a storm that can't fly. The second she wakes up, have you got any money? You're looking for a good time, honey? Yeah. And so she's all kind of fucked up, too, like, ugh, ugh. And so she pushes them out of the way and just takes off. She even has those lift Frankenstein shoes, but they're women versions with those big lifts on them. And so she comes across this poor bastard Patsy guy, like, ooh, ooh, God, yes. While they're, like, doing it, all this, like, lightning and everything starts. He explodes, like, he blows up. She goes to the bar. Holy shit, girls, it's John's, holy shitload of John's. What the hell is that? Poor Zorro is at the other end talking to his friend about all the bitches that he's lost. Are you kidding me? Yeah, you kidding me. He's like, no, you don't get it, man. They just blew up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll talk more later about them exploding bitches. And he notices Elizabeth. He goes down on her. Under the table and all his lightning and shit starts coming out and he blows up. Jeffrey grabs her and they take off and Zorro follows them home. And that's where we're going to end it. So if you want to see what happens, Jeffrey, Elizabeth, and all the extra body parts that Jeffrey has stashed in that freezer. Keep watching, Frankenhooker. The comedy for this movie is just fantastic. It's pretty classy considering it's a movie called Frankenhooker. Yeah, it's very well written. And the effects are great for this movie too, right? You don't expect it. Lots of exploding bodies. Right? And they're done well. The leg going into the lamp, like the shot following the leg, and like the head blowing up and hitting Zorro. Stylistic movie too. Like it has a certain look. It's all vivid lighting and very 90s looking, right? So the type of movie that it is, like being called Frankenhooker, you wouldn't expect that type of quality, right? No, not at all. Like it's very good. The acting on especially Jeffrey's part is really good. He's a perfect one-man show that he carries the whole movie. It is basically a one-man show, yeah. If you would have had a different actor, I think it would have been a completely different movie, like just the delivery and everything, right? And I love like the Jersey accent, like it's super like not like a Frankenstein movie, garage, laboratory, and stealing stuff from work. Everything's got a two-bit. All of the characters in this movie are fantastic. We just mentioned Jeffrey. Like there's Elizabeth as like the human, as her human self, which is good. But then as the Frankenhooker, she's even better. Hilarious. Yeah, like all of the lines that she says is fucking funny. And the delivery too. Yeah. Looking for a date. Zorro's great too, right? Even though his acting is kind of, you can tell this guy is not an actor, they cast him because he's a big fucking dude. His poor delivery is funny. And it's what works. And it works, right? It works perfectly. Jeffrey's mother, she's a good character and she has that little talk with him and it's kind of like it's a little heartwarming. Yeah, it kind of breaks up all the comedy. The story is actually pretty good for this. As silly as it is, as stupid as it is. It's a good story. Right. And it all seems to work really well with itself. They knew how to put this movie together. This movie could easily go off in a whole bunch of different directions. It could easily be tacky or overly campy. Right. And it just happens to ride that fine line. The way that Jeffrey tries to rationalize what he's doing, all that stuff like makes the movie a little bit more serious. Even though it's not a serious movie, it makes it more believable. Right. Good question. Why am I doing this? And actually there is like a little bit of social commentary on like the whole culture of prostitution. There's that woman on that talk show talking about if you legalize prostitution, it's better. It's subtle but it's there. Yeah, yeah, exactly. They make a point of mentioning it. So if you want a really good kind of like dark horror comedy, it's a lot of fun and you could probably watch it a couple of times. I've watched it twice this month already. Check out Frank and Hooker if you haven't seen it. We were talking before we shot this video about like I always remember that VHS being on the shelf and never renting it. It's like that just looks so stupid. Like why would I rent something called Frank and Hooker and it was named something different. It might have been a little more popular. Right. But after finally watching it after all these years is like, oh man, what am I missing? You know, missing this for years. It's a breath of fresh air really. And it's a nice change of pace from all the dark horror movies that you start watching around this time. Exactly. And it's nice to see a horror comedy done with the right amount of comedy and not being so completely stupid. Frank and Hooker got it perfectly. That's right. So until next time, keep drinking and hooking.