Directed by:
Frank HenenlotterScreenplay:
Frank HenenlotterCinematography:
Bruce TorbetCast:
Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Robert Vogel, Diana Browne, Lloyd Pace, Bill Freeman, Joe ClarkePlots(1)
Duane Bradley always carries a wicker basket with him. It contains Belial, the mutant conjoined twin that was removed from Duane's side and left for dead when they were born. The two brothers are still connected telepathically, and have come to New York City to take revenge on the surgeons who separated them. (Second Sight)
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A clean, undistilled grindhouse flick that makes up for its obviously low budget with shocking unpredictability, sick inventiveness, bizarre humour and great passion for the cause. It’s shot on grainy 16mm in the dirtiest corners of New York that would make Scorsese's Taxi Driver envious. Someone on the internet aptly summed it up by saying that “it's like E.T. if it was directed by a psychopath”. Basket Case has a premise similar to Larry Cohen's horror film It's Alive, about a murderous baby, except that here the murderer is a tiny mutant Siamese twin being carried around in a wicker basket by his brother. Unlike It's Alive, however, Basket Case doesn't take itself seriously at all, it has drive and manages to sell its main monster perfectly. You won't get its visage and loud roar out of your head right away.
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