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Frank Henenlotter (writer)
Release Date:
April 1982 (USA)
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The tenant in room 7 is very small, very twisted and very mad.
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A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will. full summary | add synopsis
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Poster Alert! Alfredo Garcia, Tremors and Basket Case
(From Twitch. 28 November 2009, 5:28 PM, PST)
Uncle Bob Martin: A Long Thank-You to Frank, Part One
(From Dread Central. 16 November 2009, 4:05 PM, PST)
(From Twitch. 28 November 2009, 5:28 PM, PST)
Uncle Bob Martin: A Long Thank-You to Frank, Part One
(From Dread Central. 16 November 2009, 4:05 PM, PST)
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Hilarious zero-budget cheesefest!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kevin Van Hentenryck | ... | Duane Bradley |
| Terri Susan Smith | ... | Sharon |
| Beverly Bonner | ... | Casey |
| Robert Vogel | ... | Hotel manager |
| Diana Browne | ... | Dr. Judith Kutter |
| Lloyd Pace | ... | Dr. Harold Needleman |
| Bill Freeman | ... | Dr. Julius Lifflander |
| Joe Clarke | ... | Brian 'Mickey' O'Donovan |
| Ruth Neuman | ... | Aunt |
| Richard Pierce | ... | Duane's Father |
| Sean McCabe | ... | Young Duane |
| Dorothy Strongin | ... | Josephine |
| Ilze Balodis | ... | Social Worker |
| Kerry Buff | ... | Detective |
| Tom Robinson | ... | Thief in Theater |
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91 min | Sweden:86 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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USA:R |
West Germany:18 (video re-rating) (cut) |
West Germany:Not Rated (uncut) |
New Zealand:R16 |
Italy:VM18 (TV rating) |
Australia:R |
France:-12 |
Norway:(Banned) (video rating) |
UK:18 |
Netherlands:16 |
Finland:K-18 |
Germany:BPjM Restricted
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Most of the credits that appear on the end of the film are fake. The crew was very small and rather then repeat the same names over and over again they decided to just make up names.
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Continuity: When the guy steals Duane's basket at the movies he kicks the lock off, including the latch, but in the next shot, when Duane runs into the bathroom, part of the latch is still connected to the basket.
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Referenced in Brain Damage (1988)
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This is a prime example of utterly demented, no-budget, campy film-making at its most audacious. BASKET CASE tells the simple story of a misfit nerd and his homicidal, deformed (formerly Siamese) twin brother who wreak bloody revenge on the unscrupulous doctors who separated them during their understandably difficult childhood. During the course of the film, we are expected to be scared by an empty wicker basket being shaken about by an off-screen shmoe whilst the lead actor dumps sausages and hamburgers into it, spectacularly inept claymation sequences (love the part where Belial slings that drawer across the room!), dead lumps of latex being none-too-expertly manhandled by lousy actors screaming their socks off, and a green puppet hand. If you can suspend disbelief, you're a better man than I am, because I spent most of this bizarre movie's screen time laughing like a lunatic. The gore scenes owe more to Monty Python than Herschell Gordon Lewis, the acting is straight out of the John Waters school of hysterical overstatement (although it would take a churlish soul indeed not to find a scrap of respect for the hotel owner's histrionics, or the eye-boggling rant from Duane's father as he stands over his deformed son's crib) and the whole thing seems to have been shot on a budget of two bucks and some loose change. Still, the atmosphere is commendably dirty, grimy, slimy and sleazy, there's a certain amount of imagination in the execution (no pun intended) and you've gotta love a movie that never takes itself at all seriously. BASKET CASE is not for all tastes, but rather good fun if you switch off your higher brain functions and go with the flow. And watch out for the lovely goof when Duane's basket knocks into the camera during the first encounter with the love interest. Cringe!!