Frankenstein | 1973 | Italy | Paul Morrissey

Based on the popular classic horror novel by Mary Shelley, Morrissey’s version of the tale depicts Udo Kier as a much more maniacal version of the scientist, a Count who vies to create a master race using his two ‘zombies’. Unfortunately, his unfaithful wife/sister, his own sexual perversions and a lack of any virile specimens in the local village threaten his grand machinations to purify the human race. Gloriously violent, camp and raunchy to boot, this interpretation of the Frankenstein story proved too risqué for the humorless DPP who had it prosecuted on account of the frequent disembowelment, mutilation and erotic depravities.