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Basket Case

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Original title: Basket Case
Year: 1982
Running time: 91 min.
Country: United States
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Screenwriter: Frank Henenlotter
Cast: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Sean McCabe, Ilze Balodis, Tom Robinson, Chris Babson, Robert Vogel, Maria T. Newland, Diana Browne
Music: Gus Russo
Cinematography: Bruce Torbet
Producer: Basket Case Productions
Genre: Horror. Comedy | Monsters. Gore. Body Horror. B Movie
Movie Groups: Basket Case
Synopsis: Charming country bumpkin Duane Bradley takes a motel room in New York with no other luggage then a basket. In a flash back-series we learn it contains his surgically removed Siamese twin who is not only physically deformed so badly the doctors hesitated to consider him a human, but is also the vindictive drive of their trip, with the purpose to kill off all those he blames. But in the reception of one of those doctors, Duane gets his first ever date, with the receptionist, and wants to start a positive life too - when the freak twin escapes, these scene is set for a grim finale.

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"Horror is said to be driven by a fear of death when the genre is often more viscerally concerned with rejection and loneliness. Henenlotter feels these emotions in his bones."

Chuck Bowen: Slant
"Arguably one of the best horror films of the 1980s."

TV Guide
"An ultra-cheap monster film created by neophyte filmmaker Frank Henenlotter with a tongue-in-cheek approach."

Variety Staff: Variety
"Henenlotter’s consistent blurring of the line between horror and comedy is one of the more perverse side effects of his warped sensibility"

Budd Wilkins: Slant
"Same old gore and poignancy, but some garish characters and the nightmare quality of the New York hotel give it more low budget charm than it deserves."

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