Flesh for Frankenstein
In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race..
- Director: Antonio Margheriti
- Genre:Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
- Runtime:95 minutes
Cast
Joe Dallesandro : Nicholas, the stableboy
Monique van Vooren: Baroness Katrin Frankenstein
Udo Kier : Baron Frankenstein
Arno Juerging : Otto, the Baron’s assistant
Dalila Di Lazzaro: Female Monster
Dr. von Frankenstein neglects his duties towards his wife/sister, as he is obsessed with creating a perfect Serbian race to obey his commands, beginning by assembling a perfect male and female from parts of corpses. The doctor’s sublimation of his sexual urges by his powerful urge for domination is shown when he utilizes the surgical wounds of his female creation to satisfy his lust. He is dissatisfied with the inadequate reproductive urges of his current male creation, and seeks a head donor with a greater libido; he also repeatedly exhibits an intense interest that the creature’s “nasum” (nose) have a correctly Serbian shape.
As it happens, a suitably randy farmhand leaving a local brothel along with his sexually repressed friend, brought there in an unsuccessful attempt to dissuade him from entering a monastery, are spotted and waylaid by the doctor and his henchman; mistakenly assuming that the prospective monk is also suitable for stud duty, they take his head for use on the male creature. Not knowing these behind-the-scene details, the farmhand survives and finds his way to the castle, where he is befriended by the doctor’s wife; they form an agreement for him to gratify her unsatisfied carnal appetites.
Under the control of the doctor, the male and female creatures are seated for dinner with the castle’s residents, but the male creature shows no signs of recognition of his friend as he serves the Baron and his family. The farmhand realizes at this point that something is awry, but himself pretends not to recognize his friend’s face until he can investigate further. After a falling out with the doctor’s wife, who is merely concerned with her own needs, he is captured by the doctor while snooping in the laboratory; the doctor muses about using his new acquisition to replace the head of his creature, who is still showing no signs of libido. Nevertheless, the doctor’s wife/sister is rewarded for betraying the farmhand by being granted use of the creature for erotic purposes, but is killed during a bout of overly vigorous copulation. Meanwhile the jealous henchman repeats the doctor’s sexual exploits with the female creature, resulting in her graphic disembowelment. The doctor returns and, enraged, does away with the henchman; when he attempts to have the male creature eliminate the farmhand, however, the remnants of his friend’s personality rebel and the doctor is killed instead in gruesome fashion. The creature, believing he is better off dead, then disembowels himself. The doctor’s children then enter the laboratory pair up a pair of scalpels and proceed to turn the wheel of the crane that is holding the farmhand in mid-air. It is not clear if the scalpels are there in order to release him, or take over when father left off! Read more
