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April 1982 (USA) more
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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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Cast

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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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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. more
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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. more
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Josephine: Your brother? What is he? A midget?
Duane Bradley: No, he's deformed!
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Referenced in Brain Damage (1988) more

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Hilarious zero-budget cheesefest!, 21 October 2002
Author: TC Raymond from England

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!!

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