- Director
- Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti, Andy Warhol
- Year
- 1973
- Runtime
- 94 min
Also released as
- Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
- Carne per Frankenstein
- The Frankenstein Experiment
- Carne para Frankenstein
- Плът за Франкенщайн
- Chair pour Frankenstein
- Andy Warhol's Flesh For Frankenstein
- Frankenstein, teurastaja
- Ζόμπι Εναντίον Φρανκενστάιν
- Ο Βαρόνος Φρανκενστάιν
- Σάρκα για τον Φρανκενστάιν
- Test Frankensteinnek
- アンディ・ウォーホルのフランケンシュタイン
- 悪魔のはらわた
- Ciało dla Frankensteina
- Andy Warhols Frankenstein
- Тело для Франкенштейна
- Şeytan ve Frankenstein
- Frankenstein en 3D
Filed under
Flesh for Frankenstein
Flesh for Frankenstein is a 1973 French, American and Italian gothic horror film directed by Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti and Andy Warhol. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
Shot in 3D with Udo Kier and a spleen. Warhol's name on it, Paul Morrissey's film.
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Shot in 3D in Italy with Udo Kier as a Baron who wants to build a master race and has strong opinions about the gall bladder.
Paul Morrissey directed it, Andy Warhol's name went above the title for marketing, and Carlo Rambaldi did the effects seven years before he built E.T.
The 3D is the point. Organs are handed toward the camera and held there. Rambaldi's viscera were designed to be looked at down the lens, which is why the film is shapeless as narrative and works as a series of presentations.
Kier plays the whole thing in an accent nobody could dub around and delivers the film's famous line about knowing death, which has outlived everything else in it.
Successfully prosecuted. Passed 18 uncut in 2006.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
UK video title Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
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The same film, sold as a different film in each territory. Click any of them.
Where to watch
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USA
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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