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Basket case 3 :- The progeny.
What can I say about Basket case 3 well it was definently an improvement from the second film in the series but thats not saying much I still perfer the first film. The whole reason to watch this is that Bilial finally gets to show us what he's realy made of in one of the better scenes in the film, when two cops kidnapp his small freakish children and accidently kill his freak like girlfriend he soon gets his revenge on the whole police station in a hilarious and very gory sequence. Frank Henenlotter definently adds alot of humor in his film so I suggest nobody should take this seriously just like Peter Jakson's earlier films like Bad taste.

The Most Over-The-Top Of The Series
Defying description even more than the first two, "Basket Case 3: The Progeny" takes the series further into the outrageous and surreal than ever before.Now pretty much a full-fledged horror comedy but not only one of the rare examples of that form that works very well, but of a whole different nature than most of its peers at a fundamental level.NOT a spoof or light, the horror elements are stronger, more fearsome and more graphic than most 'straight' horror movies, and the elements of harrowing tragedy that dominated the original Basket Case are still in place, but so are elements of sexiness, cute appeal, insane action and over-the-top strange hilarity, including an 'armored Belial' scene that makes "Evil Dead 2" and even "Gremlins 2" seem as intently somber as "The Sixth Sense".There is probably no way all these differnt elements should come together as well as they do, or that it should be able to do it and stay in tune with more 'fully dark' original; it should come off as much of a misfire as "Jason X" but somehow doesn't - it's the only movie to fly on all these radically different tracks at the same time and succeed, and brings the "Basket Case" trilogy to a victorious conclusion.

BETTER THA N 2
THE ORIGINAL BASKETCASE IS A HIT HORROR/COMEDY WHITH ENOUGH LAUGHS KILLS CHILLS THE SEQUEL BASKETCASE 2 IS RUBISH BORING HAD AN OK ENDING.THIS ONE IS UP THERE WITH THE ORIGINAL THIS ONE TAKES COMEDY AND HORROR TO THE EXTREME.BELIHLE HAS NOW HAD KIDS THEY GET STOLE IL LEAVE IT THER.Read more

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Could Be So Much Better
So this guy loses his fiance when she accidently gets shredded to peices in a lawnmower. He keeps the head and works on a plan to bring her back from the dead like a Frankenstien monster. He has 2 days before a big lightning storm to find the right body, so for no aparent reason he invents super crack and on the night he's inspecting a few hookers for the right body, they end up accidently taking the stuff and blowing themselves into peices. Then he uses the body parts to make a body for his wife and things go wrong from them when she returns to life and is all messed up.
Frankenhooker
I love this movie it is high camp!!! Trashy and funny and alot of bad taste!! This movie is pretty hard to find and i have been waiting for it to be released new on DVD for years but to no avail...i tried to buy it on ebay and never received the movie and lost the cash...so i am still trying to buy it...i found this film to be hilarious and a b-movie that Elvira would love to host...but i am a John Waters fan and i like movies that are a bit on the ...different side.

Fun, fun, fun
Truly a classy movie, what type of class you ask? _LOW_.
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DEFORMED,HIDEOUS,FREAKS.......BASKET CASE 2
A mansion owned by an old woman and occupied by a bunch of somewhat friendly,DEFORMED FREAKS that are quite hideous and grotesque,so hideous in fact that they must hide from the outside world.These people(???)only need a place to stay,but if someone trys to violate their rights and interfere,WATCH OUT,because these deformed freaks WILL GET EVEN!!!!!!......Quite a unique and GREAT movie.LOVE IT!!!

New Friends For Duane & Belial...
BASKET CASE was a cult horror hit thanks to its gory premise and the story of two brothers, one normal and one a lumpen deformed monster, out for revenge against the doctors that separated them. The movie was a great premise for revenge against those out to destroy their very lives. Of course, you can't forget the ending in which the tension from Belial's jealously over Duane's romance with coy, busty Sharon builds to a rather unfortunate sibling dispute. After plunging from the third floor of the hotel from a brawl between each other, it may have been believed that they were both dead...ah, but this is a horror movie, and there's no way you'd really think that these two could not survive a fall like that.
Basket case 2.
While the film isn't as fun to watch than the first one it atleast has been slightly improved by the budget of the film and the acting although it still sucks and I have a feeling that some horror fans won't like it. The story continues soon after the incedint that took place after the ending of the first film when Bilial and his brother were hanging on the sign of the hotel Broslin and fell on the street, after being in a critical condition they both end up being in a hospital they also end up being on the news and have been called the NY blood twins or something like that so a granny who takes care of freaks helps them out. Now this is the part of the film where the film gets really dumb as the granny introduces the other freaks to the twins while some of them looked average the others were so awfull that they looked like they were rejected from a childrens t.v. show and the musical score for this film was just retarded. The reason I added a star is because I thought that the story might of had a decent story but all of that was a missed oppritunaty. I suggest you should avoid this unless you really want to know what happens to the freak twins. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Here's a sick little movie for you--a creepy-funny shocker that's become a semi-cult classic since its release in 1982. It's a cheesy, low-budget horror flick about a small-town geek who arrives in New York City's Times Square carrying his mutant, telepathic twin brother in a big basket (hence the movie's title, get it?). They were once Siamese twins, and now they're seeking gory revenge against the doctors who surgically separated them against their will! Talk about brotherly love! The "normal" sibling has to keep his brother well- fed, and the basket-dweller's appetite runs the gamut from hamburgers to hookers. There's plenty of lowlife "meat" to be found in the seedy motel where the brothers live. Not exactly mainstream fare, as you might already have guessed, but director Frank Henenlotter handles the gruesomeness with resourceful ingenuity. The movie even gathered enough horror-buff momentum to spawn two lesser sequels in 1990 and 1992, which is all the proof you need to add this dubious trilogy to the gross-out hall of fame. Read more

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A MINISCULEBUDGET, THE MAIN POINT OF THIS REVIEW IS TO LET YOU THEREADER KNOW A DREAM WAS ACCOMPLISHED!!
PEOPLE WILL SAY BASKETCASE SUCKS. THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT GREAT.DIRECTOR FRANK HENENLOTTER BRILLIANTLY DIRECTED THIS HORROR SHLOCK GORE FEST. HENENLOTTER MADE THE MOST OF THIS FILMS MINISCULE BUDGET. ACTORS KEVIN VAN HENTENRYCK AND TERRI SUSAN SMITH ARE INCREDIBLE IN THEIR PERFORMANCES.BEVERLY BONNER PLAYED A PROSTITUTE, BUT HER CHARACHTERS PERFORMANCE AND CREDABILITY IN THIS MOVIE WAS INCREDIBLE. BASKETCASE WAS DONE WITH ALOT OF GUTS AND A BELIEF THAT IT COULD BE A SUCCESS. HENENLOTTER WAS CORRECT, THIS MOVIE IS KNOWN ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND HAS MADE A FORTUNE. BASKETCASE DOES HAVE VERY BAD (CHEAP) SPECIAL EFFECTS ESPECIALLY THE STOP MOTION SCENES OF BELIAL, DUANES MUTATED TWIN. THIS MOVIE DOES SUPPLY EMOTION, AND IS VERY TOUCHING AT THE END. GUS RUSSO SUPPLYS THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THIS MOVIE. WHEN YOU SEE THE END OF BASKETCASE, GUS RUSSOS MUSIC BLENDS IN BEAUTIFULLY WITH THE SCENE AND MAKES THIS SCENE VERY SAD. IF YOU THE VIEWER OF THIS MOVIE ARE EXPECTING "FREDDY VS. JASON" EFFECTS YOUR NOT EVEN GETTING A MICROCOSIM OF FREDDY EFFECTS. THIS IS A GREAT GRADE C MOVIE MADE DURING THE AGE OF GORE 1978-1983. ALOT OF EFFORT WENT INTO BASKETCASE AS WITH MOST GORE MOVIES OF THIS ERA, JUST TRY TO HAVE SOME IMAGINATION WHEN WATCHING BASKETCASE, SO THE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE NOT OF "STAR WARS EPISODE III". I GOT NEWS FOR YOU THE READER, GEORGE LUCAS HIMSELF ALONG WITH ALOT OF BIG TIME HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS PROBABLY LIKE BASKETCASE FOR HENENLOTTERS CREATIVITY AND HIS BELIEF IN BASKETCASE. THE EXTRAS ON THIS DVD ARE PLENTIFUL AND THE VIDEO SHORT "IN SEARCH OF THE HOTEL BROSLIN" EXPLAINS ALOT ABOUT BASKETCASE AND IS REALLY A FASINATING LOOK INTO THIS OUTRAGEOUS BIZARRE MOVIE. THE LAST 15 MINUTES OF THIS FILM MAKE THIS A HEART WARMING CLASSIC. THIS FILM IS NOT IN WIDESCREEN LIKE I WISH IT WOULD HAVE BEEN, BUT THE DIGITAL TRANSFER OF THIS FILM IS DONE SPLENDIDLY, THE PICTURE IS REALLY CLEAN.DONT BE SO HARSH ON RIPPING THIS MOVIE, LOOK AT IT THIS WAY, FRANK HENENLOTTER AND HIS CREW ACTUALLY PUT IN AN INCREDIBLE EFFORT INTO MAKING THIS MOVIE.....

Sibling Rivalry...
Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) checks into the hotel Broslin in NYC w/ his incredibly deformed, psychic, and psychotic brother, Belial. Together, they plan on hunting down and killing the quacks who surgically separated them years earlier. This is done in gorey detail, with splashes of hysterical humor tossed in! I especially enjoyed the demise of Dr. Kutter (check out her identical twin nurses). Actually, this movie is about the love between two brothers and the jealousy / anger that develops when one of them falls in love. There is a certain warmth beneath all that goo! Along the way, we are treated to many scenes of mutilation and depravity, as only Frank Henenlotter can deliver (The last 15 minutes or so are downright disturbing)! I think BASKET CASE is a classic, and recommend it to anyone w/ a taste for the outrageous and bizarre...

horror trash megafest
I tend to side with those who credit this film as a cult horror trash classic. It is definitely as cheap as can be and I myself have an audience viewer's "impatience" factor that would alert me to any outrageous unworthy sort of material not based on any other critics review or opinion. This movie rates along with those Divine cheap flicks in distaste string budget movie making, but the first movie of this series was a cult classic in its own right. I have to admit, it made me smile, and after all. . .those cheap rented motel one night stands really do exist. Liked the prostitute neighbor, the doctor's secretary, the nosey old man, and the devastated nurse. Would be willing to buy this one in the gasoline bargain basement closeout. Is that a thumbs up, or what? ... Read more

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Sick, Twisted Little Film From 'Basket Case' Director...4.5 stars
Well, I have to admit that after I saw the sick BASKET CASE, I wondered what other movies Frank Henenlotter had made besides the BASKET CASE series. I found this sick, twisted film a few years ago and ordered the special edition DVD and finally got it days later. Nervous, I wondered how this film would stand up against BASKET CASE and how good it would be...and to my surprise, I was not at all disappointed.
Worst movie EVAR!
I love bad cheesy movies (see 'The Stuff'), but this has got to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen.Mind you, I *did* make it through the whole thing so I guess something made me keep watching.Maybe it was hope that it would get better.

A Head Game from Hell
1988's BRAIN DAMAGE is the second film from low-budget Grand Guignol writer/director Frank Henenlotter, his first being the grisly over-the-top cult favorite BASKET CASE (1982), and both films established him as the master auteur of bad-taste horror cinema in the 1980s.But despite of the excessive gore and crude sexual elements, Henenlotter's films are a cut above the average trash pics because his well-written scripts are weaved around a daedal subtext that offers wry comments and observations on certain elements or aspects of modern society.With the visceral horror comedy BRAIN DAMAGE, Henenlotter is satirizing the Western propensity for addiction.Read more

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Here's a sick little movie for you--a creepy-funny shocker that's become a semi-cult classic since its release in 1982. It's a cheesy, low-budget horror flick about a small-town geek who arrives in New York City's Times Square carrying his mutant, telepathic twin brother in a big basket (hence the movie's title, get it?). They were once Siamese twins, and now they're seeking gory revenge against the doctors who surgically separated them against their will! Talk about brotherly love! The "normal" sibling has to keep his brother well- fed, and the basket-dweller's appetite runs the gamut from hamburgers to hookers. There's plenty of lowlife "meat" to be found in the seedy motel where the brothers live. Not exactly mainstream fare, as you might already have guessed, but director Frank Henenlotter handles the gruesomeness with resourceful ingenuity. The movie even gathered enough horror-buff momentum to spawn two lesser sequels in 1990 and 1992, which is all the proof you need to add this dubious trilogy to the gross-out hall of fame. Read more

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A MINISCULEBUDGET, THE MAIN POINT OF THIS REVIEW IS TO LET YOU THEREADER KNOW A DREAM WAS ACCOMPLISHED!!
PEOPLE WILL SAY BASKETCASE SUCKS. THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT GREAT.DIRECTOR FRANK HENENLOTTER BRILLIANTLY DIRECTED THIS HORROR SHLOCK GORE FEST. HENENLOTTER MADE THE MOST OF THIS FILMS MINISCULE BUDGET. ACTORS KEVIN VAN HENTENRYCK AND TERRI SUSAN SMITH ARE INCREDIBLE IN THEIR PERFORMANCES.BEVERLY BONNER PLAYED A PROSTITUTE, BUT HER CHARACHTERS PERFORMANCE AND CREDABILITY IN THIS MOVIE WAS INCREDIBLE. BASKETCASE WAS DONE WITH ALOT OF GUTS AND A BELIEF THAT IT COULD BE A SUCCESS. HENENLOTTER WAS CORRECT, THIS MOVIE IS KNOWN ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND HAS MADE A FORTUNE. BASKETCASE DOES HAVE VERY BAD (CHEAP) SPECIAL EFFECTS ESPECIALLY THE STOP MOTION SCENES OF BELIAL, DUANES MUTATED TWIN. THIS MOVIE DOES SUPPLY EMOTION, AND IS VERY TOUCHING AT THE END. GUS RUSSO SUPPLYS THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THIS MOVIE. WHEN YOU SEE THE END OF BASKETCASE, GUS RUSSOS MUSIC BLENDS IN BEAUTIFULLY WITH THE SCENE AND MAKES THIS SCENE VERY SAD. IF YOU THE VIEWER OF THIS MOVIE ARE EXPECTING "FREDDY VS. JASON" EFFECTS YOUR NOT EVEN GETTING A MICROCOSIM OF FREDDY EFFECTS. THIS IS A GREAT GRADE C MOVIE MADE DURING THE AGE OF GORE 1978-1983. ALOT OF EFFORT WENT INTO BASKETCASE AS WITH MOST GORE MOVIES OF THIS ERA, JUST TRY TO HAVE SOME IMAGINATION WHEN WATCHING BASKETCASE, SO THE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE NOT OF "STAR WARS EPISODE III". I GOT NEWS FOR YOU THE READER, GEORGE LUCAS HIMSELF ALONG WITH ALOT OF BIG TIME HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS PROBABLY LIKE BASKETCASE FOR HENENLOTTERS CREATIVITY AND HIS BELIEF IN BASKETCASE. THE EXTRAS ON THIS DVD ARE PLENTIFUL AND THE VIDEO SHORT "IN SEARCH OF THE HOTEL BROSLIN" EXPLAINS ALOT ABOUT BASKETCASE AND IS REALLY A FASINATING LOOK INTO THIS OUTRAGEOUS BIZARRE MOVIE. THE LAST 15 MINUTES OF THIS FILM MAKE THIS A HEART WARMING CLASSIC. THIS FILM IS NOT IN WIDESCREEN LIKE I WISH IT WOULD HAVE BEEN, BUT THE DIGITAL TRANSFER OF THIS FILM IS DONE SPLENDIDLY, THE PICTURE IS REALLY CLEAN.DONT BE SO HARSH ON RIPPING THIS MOVIE, LOOK AT IT THIS WAY, FRANK HENENLOTTER AND HIS CREW ACTUALLY PUT IN AN INCREDIBLE EFFORT INTO MAKING THIS MOVIE.....

Sibling Rivalry...
Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) checks into the hotel Broslin in NYC w/ his incredibly deformed, psychic, and psychotic brother, Belial. Together, they plan on hunting down and killing the quacks who surgically separated them years earlier. This is done in gorey detail, with splashes of hysterical humor tossed in! I especially enjoyed the demise of Dr. Kutter (check out her identical twin nurses). Actually, this movie is about the love between two brothers and the jealousy / anger that develops when one of them falls in love. There is a certain warmth beneath all that goo! Along the way, we are treated to many scenes of mutilation and depravity, as only Frank Henenlotter can deliver (The last 15 minutes or so are downright disturbing)! I think BASKET CASE is a classic, and recommend it to anyone w/ a taste for the outrageous and bizarre...

horror trash megafest
I tend to side with those who credit this film as a cult horror trash classic. It is definitely as cheap as can be and I myself have an audience viewer's "impatience" factor that would alert me to any outrageous unworthy sort of material not based on any other critics review or opinion. This movie rates along with those Divine cheap flicks in distaste string budget movie making, but the first movie of this series was a cult classic in its own right. I have to admit, it made me smile, and after all. . .those cheap rented motel one night stands really do exist. Liked the prostitute neighbor, the doctor's secretary, the nosey old man, and the devastated nurse. Would be willing to buy this one in the gasoline bargain basement closeout. Is that a thumbs up, or what? ... Read more

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