Flesh for Frankenstein, the 1973 erotic horror film that brought the actor Udo Kier an early taste of fame, was presented in 3D, the better to make its ingeniously disgusting effects truly pop. The gory highlight showed Kier, as Baron Frankenstein, being run through with a spear, his liver wobbling jauntily in the viewer’s face.
No such gimmicks were needed to render Kier vividly three-dimensional over the course of a career that spanned more than half a century, and during which he worked with everyone from Lars von Trier and Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Pamela Anderson and Madonna.
