Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) on Netflix
In his castle laboratory, Baron Frankenstein builds a perfect man and woman from corpses, intending them to breed a race obedient to him. He still lacks a suitable male head.
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Plot summary
Baron von Frankenstein ignores his wife and sister Katrin. In his castle laboratory he stitches corpses into a man and a woman, intending the pair to breed a Serbian race that will obey him, and he wants the male finished with a head that carries the right Serbian nose and a strong appetite. His assistant Otto joins him outside a brothel to listen for a suitable donor. Nicholas, a farmhand, has brought his friend Sacha there; Sacha hopes to enter a monastery. Katrin has taken the children out of school, scolds Nicholas for neglecting his work and orders him to report to the castle.
Cast
- Arno Jürgingas Otto
- Srđan Zelenovićas Sacha/Male Monster
- Marco Liofredias Erik
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
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- Italian prints credited second unit director Antonio Margheriti as the film's director under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, which Udo Kier said was false: Kier and the rest of the cast, he said, were directed only by Morrissey, and the credit was arranged so the film would obtain Italian nationality for the producers under Italian law.
- Italy's censors received the film in January 1974 as Carne per Frankenstein, a version with less explicit sex and more violent deaths than the American edit; that version was banned, and an edited one was resubmitted under a different title, running 89 minutes.
- Paul Morrissey first planned to let his cast improvise the dialogue, but the method failed with actors such as Udo Kier, so he prepared the dialogue day by day, dictating it to Pat Hackett at his studio.
- Antonio Margheriti shot some of the film's special-effects scenes, including one whose "breathing lungs" were made from pigs' lungs.
