Mar 23 2009Good News from the Frankenhood
Their most valuable player is rest in peace! Coming soon to DVD, Blaxwell Smart's directorial debut, Frankenhood:
Motown (DeRay Davis) and Darius (Jasper Redd) work in a morgue, trading put-downs and toiling among the most undemanding of customers. But outside of their decidedly dreary jobs, the two dream of bigger and better things. If only they could win the $25,000 prize that will go to the winners of the upcoming 3-on-3 Streetball Tournament. One night, having been demoted to graveyard shift, they run into their semi-sane colleague Franklin (Charlie Murphy) in a dark alley outside the morgue. They find Franklin using the auto battery of Motown's precious Gremlin to bring to life a monstrous dead man (Bob Sapp) whose heart Franklin has just replaced. That 3-on-3 basketball tournament isn't looking so bad...if they can just get their new mutant friend to play basketball!(from Dread Central, thanks to Chris.)
If they can just get their new mutant friend to play basketball! Argh! That's always the rub, isn't it? So many Frankenstein Monsters, so few Frankenstein Monsters able to learn complicated rule systems and manipulate their lumbering bodies in such a way to as to become effective 3-on-3 basketball players.
Maybe I'm looking for too much accuracy from a movie called Frankenhood, but don't Frankensteins traditionally have the bolts in the neck, not the temples? That will probably be my one issue with the film when I rent it on May 5th.
Reader Comments
1. lulu - March 23, 2009 3:47 PM
WHAT WHAT IN THE BUTT!??!
2. DreamFolder - March 23, 2009 3:55 PM
I never got the bolts in the neck. What were they supposed to be holding going side-to-side like that? Anymore, they'd be there to regulate the head-nodding motion of your nuzzling yes-man.
Bolts in the temples make a lot more sense. They'd be convenient electrodes for applying corrective electroshock. You could use them as hoist points.
"The creature's not making sense again. I think he has a screw loose."
3. Hey - March 23, 2009 4:01 PM
holy crap...
4. Chumpy - March 23, 2009 4:06 PM
holy shit it's the ghetto Shrek
5. Pepper - March 23, 2009 4:38 PM
You've got to be kidding me.
6. StlDragoon - March 23, 2009 4:40 PM
OMG WTF!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
I barfed when I saw this add.
Someone PEW PEW PEW in the head
7. smatt - March 23, 2009 5:05 PM
charlie murphy sure looks a lot like eddie murphy. I guess charlie is broke too.
8. mattk - March 23, 2009 5:19 PM
I love that they were so broke they didn't have cash for a stack of fake money.
They totes photoshopped the $$ in her hand.
FAKE! fake... shadow's=wrong... etc.
9. killswitch - March 23, 2009 5:26 PM
I think they photoshopped her head onto those boobs as well. FAKE!
10. TJ - March 23, 2009 5:58 PM
Kudos Frankenhood producers. You managed to produce an urban comedy too ridiculous for Tyler Perry to present AND make Charlie Murphy relevant.
11. sully - March 23, 2009 6:54 PM
hmm... so is there actually a character named Frankenhood then? if not, this should surely be called Basketball Monster.... right?
12. What? - March 23, 2009 8:54 PM
@ 4- I love you, Chumpy
13. Beastman AIDS - March 23, 2009 10:24 PM
Bob Sapp will eat us all. The dudes got shoulders bigger than a shaved wookie.
14. mez - March 23, 2009 11:23 PM
their M.V.P was D.O.A.... or some such thing would make more sense that what the came up with for their tagline......
but the fact a movie like this gets made. that makes no sense in and of itself... so in the end the fact the tagline doesnt make sense makes some sense.....i guess.....
....ghetto shrek.....LOL
15. Snoodle - March 24, 2009 12:35 AM
This movie looks like it belongs in the 90's, direct to dvd or not :s
16. Texecution - March 24, 2009 12:06 PM
Believe it or not, the bolts in the neck are a trademarked deal. Only Universal can use them. That's why every other Frankenstein-esque creature you see will never have them.