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Basket Case 2

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  • 1h 30m
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Basket Case 2 (1990)
Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.
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Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.

IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Frank Henenlotter
  • Writer
    • Frank Henenlotter
  • Stars
    • Kevin Van Hentenryck
    • Judy Grafe
    • Annie Ross
Top credits
  • Director
    • Frank Henenlotter
  • Writer
    • Frank Henenlotter
  • Stars
    • Kevin Van Hentenryck
    • Judy Grafe
    • Annie Ross
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    • 52User reviews
    • 70Critic reviews
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    Heather Rattray and Kevin Van Hentenryck in Basket Case 2 (1990)
    Basket Case 2 (1990)
    Annie Ross in Basket Case 2 (1990)
    Kevin Van Hentenryck in Basket Case 2 (1990)
    Kevin Van Hentenryck in Basket Case 2 (1990)
    Annie Ross and Heather Rattray in Basket Case 2 (1990)

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    Kevin Van Hentenryck
    Kevin Van Hentenryck
    • Duaneas Duane
    Judy Grafe
    Judy Grafe
    • News Womanas News Woman
    Annie Ross
    Annie Ross
    • Granny Ruthas Granny Ruth
    Heather Rattray
    Heather Rattray
    • Susanas Susan
    Chad Brown
    • News Manas News Man
    Beverly Bonner
    Beverly Bonner
    • Caseyas Casey
    Leonard Jackson
    Leonard Jackson
    • Police Commissioneras Police Commissioner
    Alexandra Auder
    • Nurse Sherrias Nurse Sherri
    Brian Fitzpatrick
    Brian Fitzpatrick
    • Copas Cop
    Gale Van Cott
    • Desk Clerkas Desk Clerk
    Kuno Sponholz
    • Sick Old Manas Sick Old Man
    Kathryn Meisle
    Kathryn Meisle
    • Marcieas Marcie
    Dominic Marcus
    Dominic Marcus
    • Security Guardas Security Guard
    Doug Anderson
    • Snoring Copas Snoring Cop
    Jason Evers
    Jason Evers
    • Lou the Editoras Lou the Editor
    Jan Saint
    • Lyle Barkeras Lyle Barker
    Matt Mitler
    Matt Mitler
    • Artyas Arty
    Michael Rubenstein
    • Clancyas Clancy
    • Director
      • Frank Henenlotter
    • Writer
      • Frank Henenlotter
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    Storyline

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    Frank Henenlotter's BASKET CASE 2 picks up right where the original BASKET CASE leaves off. After surviving the fall from their hotel room window, Duane Bradley and his misshapen, basket-dwelling brother Belial are taken to the city hospital. By now, their attempt at leading a secret life is blown, and the pair have become media darlings across the country. Meanwhile, Duane's long-lost Aunt learns of their situation and, along with her pregnant daughter Susan, helps them escape from the confines of the hospital and the eye of the press. Duane and Belial's aunt, known as Granny Ruth, takes them under her wing at her mansion, which serves as a safe haven for hideously deformed freaks of all shapes and sizes. Unfortunately, the whereabouts of this dynamic duo don't remain secret for too long, and Duane and Belial team up with Susan, Granny Ruth, and her houseful of mutants to devise a plan to do away with the exploitative reporters once and for all. —Matt Huls (cowman777@hotmail.com)
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    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • Look who's back
    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Horror
    • Certificate
      • R
    • Parents guide

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    • Trivia
      Director Frank Henenlotter stated in an interview that his original idea for this sequel was to have the character Duane Bradley from the original Basket Case (1982) have a small part and have the film focus more on the freak aspect. He also wanted to the call the sequel "House of Freaks." Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment wanted to call the film "Basket Case 2" and insisted Duane Bradley's character have a much larger part. Despite this Henennlotter was given freedom to put the freaks in a very different situation instead of just basically redoing the first film. Because of this Hennenlotter has admitted that he likes this sequel because it is a different film than the original.
    • Goofs
      After a scene in the kitchen where Duane is wearing a blue shirt he turns to leave the room and is suddenly wearing a yellowish shirt during the last shot of the scene, which was clearly shot on at a different time on a different day. Not too long after the kitchen scene he is back to wearing the blue shirt.
    • Quotes

      Granny Ruth: I understand your pain, Belial, but ripping the faces off people may not be in your best interest.

    • Connections
      Edited from Basket Case (1982)
    • Soundtracks
      Dai Campi, Dai Prapi
      from Mefistofele

      by A. Boito

      Performed by Charles Rudolph

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    Review
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    Truly demented, somewhat grotesque, yet wickedly fun...
    Duane and his mutant brother Belial are back in this first sequel to the ever-classic tongue-in-cheek series.

    For this go-round, Duane and Belial escape from a hospital (after Belial makes sure a few of the staff members are missing their faces)and find refuge in the house of Granny Ruth (Annie Ross), who lives in a spacious house which cares for "differently abled" um, "persons." Some of the "people" in Granny Ruth's house have animal like features, such as claws and gills (even Belial, in a masterfully done puppeteering and make-up venue, is simply a hideous head with evil eyes, very sharp teeth, and two arms with claw-like fingernails extending from the hands).

    Belial never really speaks. He just sort of grunts. He does this louder when he gruesomely massacres the snoopy tabloid reporter. Basically, he "jumps" at people, locking his sharp teeth onto their face, sometimes eating certain facial features off. However evil he may seem, he is, in an extremely morbid way, like Freddy Krueger or the Leprechaun. His therapy session with Granny Ruth is a blast (I laughed my a** off(!), and his, um, engaging in an attempt at pro-creation with a female member of his genus at the end is so disgusting and putrid it's downright hilarious).

    While at Granny Ruth's house, Duane meets her lovely daughter, Susan. Susan appears, shall we say, "normal," but at the end, we find she just as much qualifies for the attic just as much as the rest of Granny's tenets.

    The ending ends with the evil winning (personally I don't think of Belial as THAT evil, just a little "delinquent" mayble),I will tell you that, but in a way, it should. Of course, director Hennenlotter probably intended this, sense it sets up room for another sequel.

    "Basket Case 2" is wicked fun! Some may find it hard to understand how some of the downright evil things that happen are funny, but they are, and they are intended to be, especially in the campy context in which they happen. Overall, this is highly recommended. Belial is, in a way, this viewer's new horror hero!

    Rating: *** out of ****.
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    • Release date
      • August 17, 1990 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • House of Freaks
    • Filming locations
      • Newark, New Jersey, USA
    • Production company
      • Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment
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    • Budget
      • $2,500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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