Andy Warhol's Frankenstein

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Movie
German title Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
Original title Carne per Frankenstein
Country of production Italy , France
original language English
Publishing year 1973
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Paul Morrissey
script Paul Morrissey
production Andy Warhol
music Claudio Gizzi
camera Luigi Kuveiller
cut Jed Johnson
Franca Silvi
occupation

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (original title: Carne per Frankenstein ) is a horror film by director Paul Morrissey from 1973, which was made in an Italian-French co-production.

action

Baron Frankenstein wants to create a new human race. From body parts he put a man and a woman together. The woman's body is complete, the man still lacks the right head.

Frankenstein's wife / sister Katrin is interested in the farm worker Nicholas, who appears to her to be very potent. She calls him to her. The day before, Nicholas goes to the brothel with his friend Sascha. Sascha can't do anything with the women there, he only seems to have eyes for Nicholas. When the two drove home in the evening, they are attacked by the baron and his assistant Otto. Frankenstein's plan is to cut off Sasha's head. Due to a mix-up, he considers the young man to be an instinctual person fixated on women. He thinks he has found an adequate candidate in him, because the couple he wants to create should have a child as soon as possible.

The bloody project succeeds. Nicholas, knocked unconscious during the attack, wakes up the next morning next to Sasha's headless corpse. He moves the lifeless body aside, then goes to the baroness. She hires him as a housekeeper, quickly making it clear to him that she is actually looking for a lover. In the laboratory, Frankenstein sews Sascha's head onto the body that he had previously created from body parts. The creature is brought to life by electricity, as is the female body in the laboratory. Frankenstein leads the newly created man to the reanimated woman, but he shows no interest in the opposite sex.

The disappointed baron introduces his creatures at dinner. Nicholas is amazed to see his friend again. He cannot explain why Sascha is alive - he is also amazed at his new, above-average height. Sascha doesn't say a word at the table, neither does the woman. When Nicholas is alone with the baroness, he tries to convince her that something is wrong. Katrin does not manage to calm him down with a few empty phrases. Nicholas goes to find the laboratory, with the baron's children helping him.

Frankenstein thinks his experiment has failed, especially since his creature is not interested in women. In a rage he looks for someone in charge who must have been secretly in the laboratory. Katrin tells him that Nicholas is in the lab right now. In fact, Nicholas is discovered in the laboratory and, with the help of the creature, is overwhelmed and tied up. As a reward for her betrayal, the baroness wants sex with the male creature. Frankenstein reluctantly agrees.

Meanwhile, assistant Otto remains in the laboratory with the female creature. The tied up Nicholas has to watch Otto kill the woman in a sex frenzy. When Frankenstein returns, he strangles his assistant in anger. Almost at the same time the male creature appears, holding the lifeless baroness in her arms. The creature had pressed the demanding woman to death in bed. Frankenstein, beside himself with anger, orders his creature to kill Nicholas. But it is Frankenstein himself who is first mutilated and then pierced with a rod.

The creature no longer wants to live. It kills itself by tearing open the fresh seams on its torso. Nicholas, still tied up, sees the baron's children approaching. Both have scalpels in hand ...

Reviews

The film-dienst describes this film as "the first of two productions made in Italy with which Warhol's in-house director Morrissey hoped to reduce the horror film to absurdity by increasing the stereotypical situations of horror films to a horrific excess. [... ] An attempt in the 3-D process, staged as blood and sex morality. "

As film critic Nora Sayre wrote in the New York Times : "Despite some amusing moments, it fails as a parody and the result is just a shameful fit of unworthiness."

background

The film was shot using a 3D process called Spacevision .

Rumors arose that it was not Morrissey, but the second unit director Antonio Margheriti - also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson - who was the actual director of the film. Udo Kier testified that this was not the case.

The follow-up film Andy Warhol's Dracula was shot mostly in the same sets and with the same crew and cast (Dallesandro, Kier, Jürging).

The set was in Serbia .

The film was banned as pornography in many Anglo-Saxon countries (USA, Great Britain, etc.) , while it was shown uncut in Germany.

literature

  • Stephen Koch: Stargazer. The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol . London 1974; Updated reissue by Marion Boyars, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7145-2920-6 .
  • Bernard Blistène (Ed.): Andy Warhol, Cinema: à l'occasion de l'Exposition Andy Warhol Rétrospective (21 juin - 10 septembre 1990) organized à Paris par le Musée National d'Art Moderne au Center Georges Pompidou . Ed. du Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-908393-30-1 .
  • Debra Miller: Billy Name: Stills from the Warhol films . Prestel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1367-3 .
  • Astrid Johanna Ofner (Ed.): Andy Warhol - Filmmaker. A retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum October 1 to 31, 2005 . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85266-282-6 .
  • Callie Angell: Andy Warhol Screen Tests . Abrams Books, 2006, ISBN 0-8109-5539-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Screen: Butchery Binge: Morrissey's 'Warhol's Frankenstein' Opens , nytimes.com , accessed April 22, 2020