History Film / Frankenhooker

* BiTheWay: Two of girls Jeffrey hired were perfectly willing to sleep with him, and also make out with each other.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: Jeffrey's special concoction, based on estrogen. It allows him to preserve human flesh in a way that later allows him to bring it back to life. The only major limitation is that it only works on women...unfortunately for him.

It begins with a happy young couple, [[Franchise/{{Frankenstein}} Jeffrey Franken and Elizabeth Shelley]], madly in love and soon to wed. The whole family has gathered for the father of the bride's birthday, and young Jeffrey is spending his time obsessively working on some kind of weird eye-in-a-brain-hooked-to-a-television-screen thing. When Elizabeth finally pulls him away from his project--allowing room for her mother to make her coleslaw--she takes him outside to the party. Her gift for her father is a brand new lawnmower, which her brilliant husband has rigged with a remote control. She's so excited by this, she can't help but demonstrate how it works...while standing in front of it. [[GoryDiscretionShot Liquification Ensues.]]

* WhyAmITicking: Smoking Jeffrey's supercrack causes one to become very warm, and then...''boom!'' Sparks, smoke, and body parts go flying.

* OffWithHisHead: Elizabeth does this to a john. Not that the john ''minds''...

* NoIndoorVoice: Elizabeth as Frankenhooker. She shouts lines spoken by the prostitutes earlier in the movie, while [[ZombieGait stiffly walking]] through the RedLightDistrict, throwing people around, and [[LargeHam grimacing at the camera]], completely [[CaptainOblivious unaware of the world around her.]] [[spoiler: She gets better.]]

* RefugeInAudacity: Oh, yes.
* ResurrectedRomance

* LaserGuidedKarma: Dr. Franken's fate.

* NoIndoorVoice: Elizabeth as Frankenhooker. She shouts lines spoken by the prostitutes earlier in the movie, while [[ZombieGait stiffly walking]] through the RedLightDistrict, throwing people around, and [[LargeHam grimacing at the camera]], completely [[CaptainOblivious unaware of the world around her.]]

* FanService / FanDisservice: There's plenty of both, depending on the viewer's own [[FetishFuel personal]] [[{{Squick}} tastes.]] As would be expected of a movie about hookers and reconstructing the dead.

* FunWithAcronyms: A woman is seen on a trashy talk show endorsing an organization in favor of legalizing prostitution: H.O.O.K.E.R., or '''H'''olding '''O'''nto '''O'''ur '''K'''nowledge of '''E'''qual '''R'''ights.

* FunWithAcronyms: A woman is seen on a trashy talk show endorsing an organization in favor of legalizing prostitution: H.O.O.K.E.R., or '''H'''olding '''O'''nto '''O'''ur '''K'''nowledge of '''E'''qual '''R''ights.

* ShoutOut: Aside from Jeffrey and Elizabeth's names, Jeffrey has a BrainInAJar with an eyeball sticking out of it in his workshop - A similar creature was seen in posters for ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'' (but [[CoversAlwaysLie only in the posters]]).

* ShoutOut: Aside from Jeffrey and Elizabeth's names, Jeffrey has a BrainInAJar with an eyeball sticking out of it in his workshop - A similar creature was seen in posters for ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldn'tDie'' (but[[CoversAlwaysLie only in the posters]]).

* OhNoNotAgain: Elizabeth's family reacts in a very non-chalant manner to Jeffrey's eyeball-brain thing. Apparently this type of weirdness is common enough, they've gotten used to it; although Elizabeth's mother is still not particularly fond of it.

'''''Frankenhooker''''' is a low-budget horror-comedy written and directed by Frank Henenlotter, and released in 1990.

* FollowTheLeader: The film was partly inspired by ''TheBrainThatWouldntDie''.

It begins with a happy young couple, [[{{Frankenstein}} Jeffrey Franken and Elizabeth Shelley]], madly in love and soon to wed. The whole family has gathered for the father of the bride's birthday, and young Jeffrey is spending his time obsessively working on some kind of weird eye-in-a-brain-hooked-to-a-television-screen thing. When Elizabeth finally pulls him away from his project--allowing room for her mother to make her coleslaw--she takes him outside to the party. Her gift for her father is a brand new lawnmower, which her brilliant husband has rigged with a remote control. She's so excited by this, she can't help but demonstrate how it works...while standing in front of it. [[GoryDiscretionShot Liquification Ensues.]]

* LightningCanDoAnything: The process of bringing Elizabeth back from the dead is a direct {{homage}} to {{Frankenstein}}.

** It's also where he gets his ideas: when he needs inspiration, Zap! Black & Decker. Elizabeth sports a heavy Joisey accent, too - before and after her death.
* {{Joisey}}: The prostitutes refer to Jeffrey [[InSeriesNickname as "Joisey Boy,"]] [[CaptainObvious for some reason.]]

** It's also where he gets his ideas: when he needs inspiration, Zap! Black & Decker.

* BookSafe: Jeffrey keeps a video tape of the news report on Elizabeth's death stashed away in a hollowed-out copy of ''GraysAnatomy''.

-->--[[StylisticSuck "Warning: Contents Under Pressure"]]
--> by Jeffrey Franken

''Frankenhooker'' is a low-budget horror-comedy written and directed by Frank Henenlotter, and released in 1990.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Lady!]]: Jeffrey's mother is played by [[MysteryMen The Blue Raja's mother]]
** That's ''Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!''

* HollywoodPudgy: Elizabeth is henpecked by [[MyBelovedSmother her mother]] for eating too much and being overweight. She's actually a thin woman wearing several layers of clothing during the opening scene.