"Flesh for Frankenstein" is a silly exploitation version of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Maybe in the 70´s this trash film could have been funny since the societies were more naive, but in the Twentieth-First Century, it is boring, silly and unfunny. Dalila Di Lazzaro is still a very hot woman in the role of the female creature. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Carne para Frankenstein" ("Flesh for Frankenstein")

The gore here brings more giggles than groans even though this retelling of the Mary Shelley story where Dr. Frankenperv (Udo Kier) builds up the body count in order to find the perfect mate to build the perfect Serbian future. He comes along the troubled Srdjan Zelenovic who is hiding his sexuality by intending to join the monastery, but a night out with buddy Joe Dallesandro ends up with Zelenovic decapitated and his head attached to another body in hopes for becoming the perfect man. Dallesandro ends up as the plaything of Monique van Vooren, Kier's wife and sister and the mother of his two children. The bloodshed flows aplenty in this gorefest that has a beautiful atmosphere and a sweet musical score but like it's follow up, Andy Warhol's Dracula, an inappropriate sense of comedy that makes you wonder what kind of drugs director / writer Paul Morrissey was on.

Certainly, this has the initial look of the Hammer films, but they were never as filled with ooszng guts and squirting blood as this is. While I did find myself looking away from the screen time to time, I was also laughing at the same time, an inappropriate reaction to what is supposed to make you go "eew". Van Voreen, reminding me of stage actress Carrie Nye, is a delightfully ribald character, obviously caring more about her sexual encounters than her own children and her blood thirsty brother / husband. A scene with Kier making love to a female corpse will have heads shaking and eyes rolling, and the laughter that follows seems inappropriate. For a film with a romantic structure, it is tactless, but it is indeed a piece of art, one that you might regret enjoying even though it does have many lovely moments.

In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein (Udo Kier) lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race, returning Serbia to its grand connections to ancient Greece. In his laboratory, assisted by Otto, he builds a desirable female body, but needs a male who will be super-body and super-lover.

Although the film is something of a cult piece, and contains raw sexuality that respectable films would not have, it actually has some notable names attached. Screenwriter Tonino Guerra (1920-2012) is better known as the author of Fellini's "Amarcord" and Antonioni's "Blowup", for example. The producers were also notable for their contributions to Italian cinema.

Ian Jane wrote, "Flesh for Frankenstein is a morbid and grotesque comedy that won't be to everyone's taste but that does deliver some interesting humor and horror in that oddball way that Morrissey has." Yep, that more or less says it all. Not a great film, maybe not even a great horror film, but a strange piece of gory camp.