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Basket Case
Basket Case
6.6
/10
640 Ratings

BASKET CASE

Directed by Frank Henenlotter
United States, 1982
Comedy, Horror

Synopsis

A seemingly ordinary man seeks vengeance for the unwanted surgery which separated him from his deformed conjoined twin brother, who he now hides in a basket.

Synopsis

A seemingly ordinary man seeks vengeance for the unwanted surgery which separated him from his deformed conjoined twin brother, who he now hides in a basket.

Our take

In his gloriously sleazy feature-length debut, New York City filmmaker Frank Henenlotter perfected the B-movie slasher, combining creepy comedy and exploitation horror to produce a legendary cult classic: a highly influential, utterly unhinged and imaginative midnight movie.