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Rock & Roll Frankenstein

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This is the most hilarious movie I have seen in years.A record producer tries to build the perfect rock star by assembling the body parts of Elvis Presley,Buddy Holly,Jimi Hendrix and others.The plan goes awry when the pothead graverobbing roadies steal the wrong penis and the monster is equipped with Liberaces member instead of Jim Morrisons.The rock and roll Frankenstein tries to fight his homosexual urges which eventually lead to murder.This movie is full of extremely crude jokes and I would not recommend it to anyone who doesnt have a warped sense of humor.An instant classic.

A sensitive and heartfelt story of a monster and his uncooperative genitalia. A washed-up music agent needs a new star and his nebbishy nephew, Frankie Stein, has developed a rejuvenation process which can reanimate lifeless body parts. Together they scheme to create a superstar by assembling the remains of rock 'n' roll's dead elite. A burnt-out roadie with a knack for grave robbing, Iggy, is enlisted to acquire the legendary body parts. The plan proceeds smoothly until Iggy screws up big time - instead of pilfering Jim Morrison's genitalia he swipes Liberace's. After the "monster" is brought to life problems soon arise. Equipped with the head of Elvis and the love tool of Lee, a schizo relationship develops between the monster and his privates. And sure enough, people have to die!

Rock and Roll Frankenstein is not for the easily offended. That has to be said right from the start. But for the rest of us it offers a hardcore chance to laugh at those we know are easilly offended. This movie takes "over the top" over the top and it does it with panache. If you're as sick of pretend A-movie wanabe
shock value flicks as I am - you'll love this honest to goodness
B-movie slugfest. R&RF takes aim at all the sacred cows of our times and delivers the laughs while doing it. Why isn't this the ROCKY HORROR of the new millennium?! See for yourself.

Warning: this movie is not for the sensitive or genteel viewer. It is filled with lewd and offensive humor, crude sexual imagery and references, a fixation on male genitilia and gay sex, overuse of the f-word, plus some gore and violence thrown in for good measure. In short, it's awesome.

How many twists to the original Frankenstein's monster story have we seen? No matter how many Frankenstein movies you've seen, I bet you've never seen any quite like this one. The plot is simple: a down-on-his-luck music agent (a great performance by Barry Feterman) gets his mad-scientist nephew, Frankie Stein (get it?) to create the ultimate rock god- using the body parts of dead musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Elvis. Of course, things don't go as planned, and the monster winds up with a- certain body part- from Liberace. The monster is eventually groomed into performing (Graig Guggenheim does a great job as the monster) but seems to have some "unnatural urges", as he calls them. As his creators discover the cause of these urges and decide what to do about it, in true manmade monster style, he starts to kill people. He then suffers an existential crisis about who he is and what he's done, and decides to put an end to himself. The last scene, in which this occurs, is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in a movie.

The DVD features a director's commentary that's as amusing as the film, plus some trailers. The acting is great, the script and dialogue are hilarious, and the end result is a highly entertaining movie that's more comedy than horror, with a little bit of porn. If you like raunchy B movies, you can't miss this one.

Simple as that - get the unrated R&R Frankenstein DVD and stay away from the butchered MPAA sanctioned R rated cut.

Enjoyment of this movie requires a twisted sense of humor and a suspension of all morals. Greedy record exec Bernie Stein appears to be washed up in the music biz, until he commissions his necrophiliac doctor nephew, Frankie, to create a rock uber-star, composed of the best parts (literally) of legendary rockers like Elvis, Hendrix, and Buddy Holly. But when Frankie's burnt-out assistant, roadie Iggy, accidentally substitutes Liberace's... um, plumbing... for Jim Morrison's, mayhem ensues. Frankie's monster turns out to be a super rocker indeed, but like all great rock stars, he's plagued by fame, image, and his secret desires.

This is a campy, gory film. Stoner dude Iggy (played by Hiram Jacob Segarra) steals the show as a mellow, good-natured accomplice, and the original songs, including "I'm a Monster" and "Unnatural Urges" will run through your head for days.

Be warned-the special effects are bloody and rather realistic, and there is at least one scene in the film that most will feel goes too far, involving the murder of a priest with the most disturbing of all possible murder weapons.

For sci-fi fans and horror fans, this flick is a great pick. If you aren't up for the gore factor, try the R-rated DVD rather than this, the unrated director's cut.

ROCK & ROLL FRANKENSTEIN sounds like an instant classic, along the lines of BASKET CASE, BRAIN DAMAGE, STREET TRASH, SLIME CITY, etc. I mean, an undead rock star made from the bodyparts of deceased rock legends? Pure gold! Unfortunately, the joke gets old fast, leading to a long, drawn-out middle section that goes nowhere. While there are some redeeming moments, including a wild final act, they are connected by vast stretches of tedium. The monster is likeable in a John-Belushi-does-Elvis sort of way. He's also the only interesting character in the entire movie! I really wanted to like R&RF. Alas, even its most disgusting / shocking parts can't offset the dullness of the overall experience...

Every musician has dreamed of their dream band, but this movie takes it one step further, a fat, cigar smoking record exec wants the next great entertainer. So what to do? Dig up parts of dead musicians and put them together! With Jimi Hendrix's hands and Jim Morrison's penis how can you go wrong? Easily, accidently use Liberace's penis for your creation!

The funniest part is when 'Elvis' is having sex with a groupie. He actually puts a gay porn magazine on her back while doing her. This is the kind of humor we see here folks. I won't even get into the 'Death by hanging yourself with your own penis' climax.

PS -- Oh yeah how could I forget? The penis talks!!!!

I rented this flick on a friend's reccommendation, not expecting much. Boy was I surprised! I laughed my... off and then went out and added it to my collection. You know the story already, about the creation of a rock star from dead musicians parts, from the synopsis. This movie holds nothing sacred and you absolutely MUST get the unrated version. The R version is total... and I accidentally ordered it from here. (Can't send it back now.) Make sure you get the UNRATED version.

Rock & Roll Frankenstein sounds like it should be hilarious; once I read the plot summary, I just had to see the film. It's clearly a bad movie from the very start, yet it does have some funny moments - at first. The basic plot owes as much to Reanimator as it does to Frankenstein, as you have an outcast medical-type guy who has discovered a way to reanimate body parts and is anxious to see if he can give life to a human being composed of parts from different people. What makes this film so different is the fact that our medical wonderboy has an uncle in the music promotion business who really, really wants to create a new superstar. His master plan is to steal the best body parts from the greatest musicians of all time and reassemble them in one body. Thus, the monster has the head of Elvis, the hands of Jimi Hendrix, and other parts from legends such as Buddy Holly and Sid Vicious. The greedy uncle wants his star to be a big hit with the ladies, as well, so the final body part (and I think you can figure out what I'm referring to here) is to come from Jim Morrison; accidentally and most unfortunately, though, the final body part ends up coming from Liberace. This is where I began to sense really big trouble. When Liberace's special little body part started talking to the monster, Rock & Roll Frankenstein pretty much flat-lined as far as I was concerned, quickly turning into one long, extended dirty joke. There are a few killings thrown in along the way, but these are actually handled so distastefully as to be remarkably not funny. Once the plot went south, there was no hope of salvaging much of anything from the movie as a whole. The cast members, for their part, didn't help the cause. The uncle's role calls for nothing but foul language delivered very loudly, the monster is just a caricature of Elvis (one who looks nothing like him despite supposedly having his head), and the young medical genius (with a history of necrophilia) seemingly refuses to even try any degree of acting whatsoever. If you can listen to a dirty joke told over and over for hours on end, you might enjoy Rock & Roll Frankenstein. As for me, I find it unfortunate that a somewhat promising premise was basically abandoned halfway through the film, decry the fact that one highly controversial scene was included for no good reason whatsoever, and admit I found nothing of value and far too little humor in this movie to justify its strange existence.