Is this movie very gory and bloody? It seems like it is very gory, but by reading some of the reviews, it seems like its all really fake. And, I don't understand what S&M or T&A means. I know I might sound weird, but could someone please clear this up for me.
shareIt's an Andy Warhol production, so it's campy... Yeah, there's gore, but it's cheesy and dated. There's also nudity and sex gallore.
You're right, it does sound weird, but here goes: S&M refers to sadomasochism. Sadism is liking to inflict pain upon others, masochism is liking to inflict pain upon oneself. When you see people clad in leather with whips and stuff, that's the S&M crowd. T&A is the "clean" way of saying "tits and ass." If you get the European version, there's T&A&D (draw your own conclusion)... Joe Daellesandro has a scene in the buff, which was the standard for his acting career in those days.
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By today's standards, it plays out like campy cartoon violence and the gore is pretty plastic-looking.
shareI think "today standards" is pretty lame in comparison to earlier horrorfilms. There are exeptions like Irreversible and Haute Tension, but overall, everything is just computer-animated. Plastic and latex looks far more real.
shareWell the severed head looked quite fake but the innards didn't look too fake. It was also kind of gross when Udo opens the girls stiches.
shareit looks fake, but theres a lot of guts falling out of people's stomach's.. unfortunitely, it happens so much that it does start to get to you and it get kind of neaseating. its still a pretty funny movie. nowhere near as good as andy warhol's dracula, but it still has its moments.
shareMainstream Hollywood movies have become so violent the old horror and exploitation flicks seem Victorian. Surely the gore in "Saving Private Ryan" is more realistic than anything in "Flesh for Frankenstein." I guess a lot of it depends on context. Now that Mel Gibson opened the floodgates with "The Passion of the Christ" it looks like ANYTHING goes in movies. Maybe that's good, if it means greater freedom for young filmmakers with something to say (the future Kubricks, Coppolas and Scorseses) but it could just mean more nauseating exploitation crap as directors abuse their freedom and rip off (i.e., "remake") all the old gore classics. It's only a matter of time before "Salo" is remade. The most violent movie I have ever seen is "Sin City" but that was so stylized and kabuki-like it didn't reall affect me (i.e., in real life people don't bleed green).
shareYou also have to keep the country of origin in mind as well. I mean take "Theater of Blood" for a case. It was made in England and an English cut of the film is graphic enough but when I saw it first here in the U.S. (on TV) at least some parts had been cut out. Some cuts may have been for fitting into a time slot but others are likely because back in the 70's (when I first saw Theater of Blood) the standards of what was allowed on TV were different here in the U.S. than in England. In some countries it is still not done that people are shown doing so mild a thing as kissing I understand. So when Flesh for Frankenstein was made the standards of what could be shown here in the U.S. (uncut or not) were different than in Italy or Serbia where it was filmed. There it may be that it was considered tame in terms of the violence and gore.
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The guts in FfF were real animal intestines and offal etc...that's why they look so real..they are!
shareThe gore effects by Carlo Rambaldi are the highlight of this movie and honestly the only reason to watch it. I'm sure it looks fake now but while not completely realistic, was definitely effective back when I saw it in theaters. Around the same time as FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN, Rambaldi did some even fakier gore for a movie called TRAGIC CEREMONY but it was once again the highlight of the movie.
shareThis film is not 'gross,' in fact it is really gorgeous to look at. It resembles an Italian arthouse film from that time. There are a few gory scenes that are considered nasty, but they are worth sitting through just to see this gorgeous film. "S&M" and "T&A" are just terms that let you know this is a very sexually charged, erotic film..
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They actually used real animal organs for some of the scenes.