words: R.A. The Rugged Man
Director of B-movie masterpieces basket Case, Frankenhooker and brain Damage, Mr. Frank Henenlotter took time out from production of his new film bad biology to tell us some of his favorite wacked-out horror scenes.
EBOLA SYNDROME [’96]
“anthony Wong, who is infected by the ebola virus, is running through the streets of Hong Kong with a meat cleaver in one hand and a dead little girl in the other. Meanwhile, he’s spitting blood in people’s faces and screaming, ‘ebola!’ It doesn’t get better than that, folks.”
MYSTICS IN BALI [’81]
“you haven’t lived until you’ve seen a flying head with its own dangling internal organs flying around. a witch sends this girl to get blood, so the girls head actually comes off and flies around the air with all of her guts and intestines still attached. Then the flying head finds pregnant women and sucks out their babies.”
LES POSSÉDÉES DU DIABLE [’74]
“Director Jesus Franco loves photographing a woman’s pussy and has no trouble getting that camera as close as he can, except in this film he has little 4-inch crabs crawling out of one. It’s an absolute violation of everything you want in a vagina. It’s one of those special moments in movies.”
COLOR ME BLOOD RED [’65]
“This crazy artist runs out of red paint, so he walks over to a dead girl he has strapped against the wall, squeezes a piece of her intestine and blood goes squirting into his little paint can and he’s happy. The utter casualness and the deranged functionality of it all, makes it one of my favorite moments.”
ETERNAL EVIL OF ASIA [’95]
“a guy calls a wizard a dickhead and the wizard basically says, ‘Well whatever you call me, that’s what you are,’ and the guy instantly has a giant penis for a head. It’s his face, but the whole head is a big penis and just when you think, Well that’s unusual, he gets scared and piss comes flying out.”
FRANKENHOOKER [’90]
“The only scene in one of my films that I actually enjoy watching is the exploding hookers scene in Frankenhooker. It’s 10 lovely girls and they smoke super crack and they explode. I could care less if the directing’s any good, I’m just blowing up women and watching them explode into pretty colors. That’s entertainment.”
*Note: Mr. Henenlotter fought me not to use one of his own films in this piece, but I basically nagged him and begged him until he gave in
