NW: Frankenstein

[Jane Grant]

Thomas, you're totally right, and not only that but I loved your description of AW'sF. It made it sound much better than I remember it. I was fortunate enough to see AW'sF in that notorious 3-D print you mention when it was re-released in the mid-1980's during the short-lived 3-D Little Bang inspired by Comin' At Ya. Remember that gem? What a piece of shit! Pure exploitation, no plot...I loved it! I think Udo Kier is the coolest thing since Klaus Kinski threatened to kill Werner Herzog and, though it's nice to see him doing car commercials and Lars Von Trier films (the Sadistic Sailor, what a card!) these days, I loved him most in Suspiria, the real link between Death in Venice and The Evil Dead.

I'm surprised nobody's come up with the other movie since it's better know than AW'sF, but maybe that's my fault because I haven't seen it in years and I might have gotten the quote wrong. One clue is that my mother saw it when she was in Spain around 1973 and she told me there were all sorts of traffic jams getting over the border to see it, but it was worth it and by the time they got there everybody in the Fiat (all two people) were shit-faced. 

Jane  
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:23:53   Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
>At 11:42 13.12.98 -0700, Jane Grant wrote:
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>>QUESTION FOR FURTHER STUDY. In that last sentence, the Author cleverly alludes
>> to two (2) Important movies from the 1970s. What are they?
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>One of them is Paul Morissey's "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein", the missing
>link between "Death in Venice" and "The Evil Dead", in which Udo Kier as
>Frankenstein explains his particularly messy behaviour during one scene as
>part of his research project (strong German accent): "To know life, Otto,
>you've got to fuck death in the gall bladder." A cornerstone of cinematic
>art and highly recommended for those who have always wondered what "The
>Courier's Tragedy" would actually look like on stage. In order to appreciate
>the movie in its full gory glory one needs to watch the 3-D version on the
>big screen, though. VCR won't do.
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>Thomas Eckhardt
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