BASKET CASE

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• Release Year: 1982
• Genre: Horror
• Plot: Carrying a mysterious wicker basket around with him, Duane Bradley arrives in Manhattan and checks into a sleazy Times Square hotel. What's in the basket, you ask? Why, Duane's hideously misshapen Siamese twin brother, Belial, of course! Originally born attached to Duane's side., the little monster was surgically removed by some quack doctors and rudely left for dead in a plastic garbage bag. But Belial survived, and Duane has hit the Big Apple with his beastly bro to wreak havoc on the surgeons who separated them. Things get complicated, however, when Duane gets romantically sidetracked by the sexy, wig-wearing receptionist of one of the doomed doctors, and his jealous telepathic sibling reacts… well, poorly.; ; With memorably gruesome scenes (the multiple scalpels stuck in a screaming face is a particular favorite) and some disturbing stop-motion animation, Frank Henenlotter's Basket Case - finally available in a Special Edition DVD! - is one of the most beloved, cheerfully demented cult classicks of all time, and a midnight movie hit that inspired two sequels.
• Cast: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Robert Vogel, Diana Browne, Lloyd Pace, Bill Freeman, Joe Clarke, Ruth Neuman, Richard Pierce, Sean McCabe, Dorothy Strongin, Ilze Balodis, Kerry Buff, Tom Robinson, Chris Babson, Maria T. Newland, Florence Shultz, Mary Ellen Shultz, Constantine Scopas, Charles Stanley, Sydney Best, Johnny Ray Williams, Yousef Abuhamdeh, Lubi Kirsch, Catherine Russell, Mitchell Huval, Pat Ivers, Emily Armstrong, Noel Hall, Bruce Frankel, Russell Fritz, Jerry Butler, Frank Henenlotter, Edgar Ievins, Arnold H. Bruck
• Director: Frank Henenlotter
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: Something Weird Video
• Media Format: Movie