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Basket Case is a 1982 American horror film written and directed by Frank Henenlotter in his feature directorial debut. Produced by Edgar Ievins, the film stars Kevin Van Hentenryck as Duane Bradley, a young man who seeks vengeance on the doctors and nurses who performed an unwanted surgery that separated him from his deformed conjoined twin ...
Apr 2, 1982 · Basket Case: Directed by Frank Henenlotter. With Kevin VanHentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Robert Vogel. A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
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- Comedy, Horror
- Frank Henenlotter
- 1982-04-02
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Henenlotter took a slice of every one of his beloved subgenres and built a bloody, rubbery yet tasty horror sandwich that gave watchers a monster they would not only fear but feel sympathy for by...
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- Frank Henenlotter
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- Kevin Van Hentenryck
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Dr. Julius Lifflander is frightened by something outside his forest home. A shadowed creature then cuts his phone line and power before killing Lifflander by tearing at his face. Duane Bradley arrives in New York City with a locked wicker basket. He gets a room at a cheap hotel right down the hall from a sex worker named Casey. He takes some hambur...
Cast in alphabetical order. 1. Beverly Bonner as Casey 2. Diana Browne as Dr. Judith Kutter 3. Joe Clarke as Brian 'Mickey' O'Donovan 4. Bill Freeman as Dr. Julius Lifflander 5. Rick Hearst as Brian 6. Kevin Van Hentenryck as Duane Bradley 7. Sean McCabe as Young Duane 8. Ruth Neuman as Aunt 9. Lloyd Pace as Dr. Harold Needleman 10. Richard Pierce ...
The special effects for Belial consist largely on a puppet in some scenes and stop motion in others. When Belial's hand is seen attacking his victims, it is really a glove worn by Henenlotter. The full-size Belial puppet is also seen in the scenes where Belial is seen with an actor or where his eyes glow red. The Belial rampage sequence used stop m...
In a scene near the end when Duane gets into a subway train with Belial, a man with his supposed ex-girlfriend is seen. The man right in front of Duane looks drugged and that scares Duane off. The man is supposed to be Brian from Frank Henenlotter's later film "Brain Damage" which was a cameo. Basket Case received fair ratings, earning 79% at Rotte...
During the bar sequence, Duane refers to his brother, calling him Duane, instead of Belial.As Dr. Cutter's date pours wine, the wine bottle swaps from her right to her left hand.When O'Donovan is rummaging through Duane's room he finds Duane's money in a stack. Belial then kills him. Afterwards Duane returns and a cop searches his room and finds his money but now it's roll...When Duane is sleeping Belial opens his basket and looks at him, the basket lock latch disappears/reappears.Most of the credits that appear on the end of the film are fake. The crew was very small and rather than repeat the same names over and over again they decided to just make up names.When Duane checks into the Hotel Broslin he takes out a wad of cash. According to Frank Henenlotter, the film's director, this was the film's entire budget.To try to make the film appeal to a comedy crowd, the original distributor cut all the gore scenes out of the film. They were eventually put back in and re-released in theaters with the subtitle "T...In addition to providing a face cast for the Belial puppet, Kevin Van Hentenryck also performed the mutant twin's voice effects.The film was released on January 5, 1995 on VHS by Anchor Bay Entertainment. This was released on April 28, 1998 on DVD by Image Entertainment. This was released on Blu-ray on September 29, 2011 by Image Entertainment.
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