"My brother."
Basket Case (1982)
Directed by Frank Henenlotter
Directed by Frank Henenlotter
A grungy little gem intended for the old Time Square grindhouse circuit, that somehow managed to find immortality as one of the first films to find a devoted audience on VHS. Everything about this movie is low-rent and disreputable and who would want it any other way?
The remarkably tasteless premise is as follows. A young man has his deformed conjoined twin, named Belial, forcibly removed and left for dead. Instead, the boy rescues his hideous brother and carries him around in a large basket (as you do in these situations) seeking revenge on the surgeons who performed the operation.
Cheerfully exploitative and, when all is said and done, kind of charming in it's no-nonsense grubbiness. Belial is a terrific, sympathetic (to a point) monster and there is some extremely cheesy stop-action animation that's a delight to behold.
Great fun for fans of this sort of thing, and you know who you are.
The remarkably tasteless premise is as follows. A young man has his deformed conjoined twin, named Belial, forcibly removed and left for dead. Instead, the boy rescues his hideous brother and carries him around in a large basket (as you do in these situations) seeking revenge on the surgeons who performed the operation.
Cheerfully exploitative and, when all is said and done, kind of charming in it's no-nonsense grubbiness. Belial is a terrific, sympathetic (to a point) monster and there is some extremely cheesy stop-action animation that's a delight to behold.
Great fun for fans of this sort of thing, and you know who you are.
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