Basket Case (DVD) Reviews

A review of just the film. The UK-release DVD will set you back a ridiculous £15 on amazon, but a Region 1 edition from Something Weird Video crammed with extras can be imported for about a fiver. This is a very low-budget, entertaining horror comedy from 1982. The director, Frank Henenlotter, wanted to make the kind of film that would ...

In the 1980s, an odd man appeared who would carve his name into cult-horror history with his quirky,funny and OTT gore-filled movies. Im not talking about Sam Raimi, nor Peter Jackson. The man I refer to is a Mr.Frank Henenlotter. While the aforementioned pair have since went on to the big time, making blockbusters like Spiderman and Lord of the ...

This is director Frank Henenlotter's baby about a guy and his deformed brother. When Duane was born his twin, deformed brother Belial was attached to his side. For years, they coexisted quite happily. Belial couldn't talk but they could communicate through thoughts. They were happy together until the decision was made to have the monster ...

Basket Case is one of the great horror films of an era when they churned out constantly. I was very young when I first saw basket case and loved from the word go. Its based on Dwayne (I think that was his name,) and his deformed siamnese brother, whom is nothing more than a blob. They were forced to be seperated at a very ...

Sick and twisted, this film is still lots of fun. It's about two brothers, Siamese twins who were surgically seperated against their wishes at an early age. One is normal. The other, a mis-shapen monster with razor sharp claws, is carried around by his sibling in a large basket. They've come to New York City with revenge on their minds, ...

Why, it's the the mis-shaped evil siamese twin of the dude carrying the basket, obviously. And there we have the essential story of this film, a gentle tale of scary gory revenge by siamese twins on the doctors who separated them set in scummy 1970's New York. The film was made on a very low budget and this shows in some of the ...