Flawed Fairytales

Fairy tales, folklore, myths and morally grey/ evil characters from fiction. Also links to my own ficton and thoughts. 

[pixiecorpse]

frankenhooker🫀🧟‍♀️

[explodinghampsters]

I don't know if this was on purpose but I love how Jeffery Franken is a subversion of the Nice guy/deserving nerd trope of 80's teens sex comedies (revenge of the nerd, zapped, weird science). He's like if one of those highschool social outcasts grew up thinking he would eventually get what he deserved. Respect, money and a hot partner. but then he ended up being kicked out of college(3x) and be forced to live with his mother, things generally not considered acceptable in the 80's. Then, when his fiancé dies he decides to do extreme action to reanimate her, he was probably like, ok at least I get a hot babe literally made of objectified women. But instead of getting that like all the other guys in his trope would, he got the consequences of his actions instead.

Not only did the woman who he thought he was intitled to 'fix' get mad at him, not only does the consequences of his actions lead to his own death, not only does he end up being rebuilt with those objectified dead women parts forcing him to go through the same sexualization as Lizzy did as well as gender dysphoria, BUT he and lizzy will probably go through crack withdrawal because of how he killed his victims.

Mr Franken everybody, my favorite 80's nerd.

[explodinghampsters]

I don't think I could ever explain to my parents my interests in fictional characters. Like sure, I love Layla El-Faouly, because she is a realistic character who I have a lot of respect for and who I would like to strive to be like. That's understandable from the conception that an interest around a character is created through ones love for a character. But, somehow, I think about Jeffery Franken 20x more than I thought about Layla. And I wanna hit him with a chair.

[explodinghampsters]

Oooooo Jeffery Franken you are THE boy failure of the 80's. Got kicked out of 3 medical schools. Shoved drills in his brain every time he had a moral conundrum. Probably a subversion of the Nice guy/deserving nerd trope. Had a hamster. Killed said hamster with crack. Refuses to let the audience know if he's grieving his fiancée or if he's just horny in the worst way possible, forcing both of these character traits to exist in tandem. Did that Clark Kent glasses bs when killing those ladies, only to be killed himself regardless of that disguise. Quoted Nancy Regan. And now has gender dysphoria, with the same lady parts he objectified.

MF facinating

[jestersoftproveprophets]

I love what I do because I can say things like "Frankenhooker is a more feminist movie than The Bride! (2026)" in front of a room full of other academics and they'll take notes on it

[hannah367]

It's so fun being a horror fan and telling non horror fans about my favorite movies.

Because sometimes I'll tell them about these incredibly bleak psychological horrors with in-depth commentary on the state of the world and society, that features absolutely gut-wrenching performances from each of its actors, and has some absolutely incredible and graphic special effects done by the best of the best.

And other times I'll be like, "Ok, so in this B-movie from the '90s, a woman, who's actress is wearing the least convincing fat suit of all time, is brutally killed by a high-tech lawn mower that her boyfriend made, so in his grief he decides to put her back together using hooker parts that he obtains by giving them super crack that causes them to explode. Oh, but when he brings her back she doesn't remember who she was, and instead stumbles out of the house to walk the streets where some guy pays for her services, only for her to electrocute and explode him during the act. But of course he's fine with it, and at the end she picks up his severed head and it says 'that was wonderful.' Real fun movie, it was made by the same guy who made the basket case trilogy, you haven't heard of the basket case trilogy!? Ok so-"

[coldwetanddirty]

LOOKIN FOR SOME ACTION?

I just watched this movie today! Pretty good imo!!

[cosmicretreat]

Movie of the Day: Frankenhooker

Director/co-writer Frank Henenlotter satirizes the dating scene with this parody of Frankenstein. After his fiancee is killed in a lawn-mowing accident, a medical school dropout attempts to resurrect her by creating her a new body. But when he uses the body parts of sex workers, he unwittingly creates a nymphomaniacal monster who goes on a rampage.

It's violent and weird, but this movie is also incredibly funny. Patty Mullen is fantastically bizarre as Elizabeth Shelley, the monster of the title. She is completely committed to this strange, fun, fucked-up movie. James Lorinz is also hilariously deadpan as Jeffrey Frankenstein, honestly right up there with Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West in terms of being funny in a weird movie.

Frankenhooker was delayed because of ratings issues, but ultimately released on June 1, 1990.

[overly-hubristic-mad-scientist]

You know for all it’s camp and body horror Frankenhooker is dark as fuck, and even if we ignore the like shit either Elizabeth every once and a while they sex worker will casually say just like the saddest shit ever man

[xinsanity3]

im watching barry season two episode two and i dont like sally but i feel bad for her because she truly is just a victim of circumstance and she was abused which led her to not want to apologize or work things out because she never wants to feel below someone else again because that how she felt during her marriage and i do understand that part of her character while still disliking how she treats people

[deatwithdignity]

both legends meeting for the first time in the final seasons of their shows

[wachinin]

obsessed with all of them

[aydascomprehendsubtext]

this is my manifesto mostly about how sally reed suffered more than jesus. and a little bit about how she sucks.

[sulietsexual]

Betty Draper got so much hate from the mad men fandom. I feel like in prestige dramas the wife/girlfriend of the morally dubious main male character always gets so much hate from the audience. Betty Draper, Skyler White, Carmella Soprano, Sally Reed all get so much hate from the fanbase.

Justice for all the over-hated female characters!

[20thcenturywomen2016]

Randomly started thinking about Sally Reed and how so many people thought her flirting with another guy at a party and being weirded out by Barry who she’d known for approximately 2 weeks buying her a new laptop made her an evil cunt bitch. Like they were not even having some love at first sight whirlwind romance they slept together ONCE and it was literally the night before. If that happened to me I’d also be like okay what’s the catch and where did you get an idea it’s that serious that quickly and also I just said days before it wouldn’t be smart for us to get involved. Truly if you cannot understand this you are lowkey weird. Anyways if you hate Sally Reed you will die and go to hell

[fagsromana]

barry hbo gave us THE sally reed character of all time AND gay mob bosses. no one did it like them

[andremichaux]

BARRY | 2.04

[20thcenturywomen2016]

Anyways it’s forever and always about “bad” abuse victims who are dehumanized, demonized, and shamed