Image Source Over the Halloween season I treated myself to a little film called Frankenhooker (1990). I'm a sucker for the horror-comedy genre and it had been on my too-watch list for far too long. The plot of the film is relatively simple, an amateur scientist accidentally kills his wife via remote control lawnmower and rebuilds her piece by piece using the body parts of New York prostitutes that explode from smoking his "super crack". Simple. As odd as the film is, I think there's a really interesting literary motif in there of the beloved corpse. This idea goes back far. You can find tales of people trying to resurrect dead loved ones all over mythology and the idea that Frankenstein created his monster out of a level of homoerotic desire is also long standing. I think the film Swiss Army Man (2016) really plays with this motif too. Throughout the film our two leads, Hank played by Paul Dano and Manny a...