Spare Parts or as it is known in it's native country Fleish (which means flesh or meat) is a TV horror film from 1979. Originally broadcast on German television but filmed in the U.S. this one is a cult favorite in Europe. After it's original broadcast the screenplay was made into a novel ("They made a book out of that movie?" ~ Rex from the movie Airheads. Another mediocre comedy with Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler. How ya like that a movie review inside of a movie review. Few can do that!) and in 2008 it was remade for German TV.
Man, do those German like their organ harvesting movies or what? Spare Parts is written, directed, and produced by Rainer Erler. Trust me, he's big in Germany. Jutta Speidel and Herbert Herrmann play Monica and Mark, a newlywed couple trying to spend their honeymoon at The Honeymoon Hotel in New Mexico. Because when you make a German movie about stealing organs from people, New Mexico is the first place you think of. Well, where would you put it? After Mark is kidnapped by two guys that jump out of an ambulance Monica looks for help to find him. The help comes in the form or a trucker ('cause who would you want to help you) named Bill, portrayed by Wolf Roth who's name is just fun to say. G'head, say it a few times, I'll wait.
Roth may be the most well known actor outside of Germany of the three stars as he has been in Holmes and Watson as well as Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Both also mediocre films. For those keeping track, that's three mini movie reviews inside of one film review. So, anyway Spare Parts sounds like and looks like it should be good. But it's not. Like the other films I've mentioned in this review it's very average. We give this one two and a half kidneys out of five. BTW, getting that half of a kidney was so gross!
And ya know what the original version is 116 minutes and the DVD I (we?) have is the extended play with all the edited scenes added back in. My review will be posted soon!
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