Frankenhooker

Jeffrey is a medical school dropout and electrical technician whose fiancée, Elizabeth, is killed in an accident with a lawnmower. Only her head survives. Determined to bring her back, Jeffrey sets out to build her a new body. He takes his experiments to the seedier side of the city, where he crosses paths with prostitutes he intends to use as a source of parts. His work draws on electricity and a drug of his own invention, and when Elizabeth returns she is not the woman he lost.

Frank Henenlotter directed and co-wrote the film with Robert Martin, and Edgar Ievins produced it. It followed Henenlotter's Basket Case and Brain Damage and preceded Basket Case 2, which was released the same year, and Bad Biology much later. James Lorinz plays Jeffrey, with Patty Mullen as Elizabeth and supporting turns from Joseph Gonzalez, Charlotte J. Helmkamp, Joanne Ritchie and J.J. Clark among a credited cast of 45. The film runs 85 minutes.

Made for about 3 million dollars, it was a modestly scaled production with an absurdist take on the Frankenstein story. Audiences rate it around 6.2 out of 10 on IMDb from roughly 17,000 votes and 6.3 out of 10 on TMDB from about 400 votes, while critics give it 5.4 out of 10 across 17 reviews, so it lands somewhat lower with reviewers than with viewers.