NW: Frankenstein

[Thomas Eckhardt]

> 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 am quite familiar with this sentiment but not with the movie that inspired
it here. Comin' At Ya? Apart from AW'sF I have watched the 3-D prints of one
rather stupid SF movie from the 60s and an absolutely hilarious German
soft-sex flick with Ingrid Steeger and Konstantin Wecker (for those of you
who are familiar with the iconography of German popular culture) from the
early 70s, entitled, fittingly, "Love in 3-D", which, by the way, is not
nearly as good a title as the unfortunately untranslatable "Die Stewardessen
- sie fliegen durch die Luefte, Voegeln gleich" (for those of you who are
familiar with the lower registers of the German language).

>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.

You must be talking about Dario Argento's masterpiece. I am afraid Udo Kier
is not in it. Or is he? Anyway, for me his greatest moments are in Andy
Warhol's Frankenstein and Dracula (the missing link between Il Gattopardo
and Bad Taste). Remember the bathtub scenes in Dracula? 



Thomas (who also has got pale blue eyes, in about seven different versions)