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Basket Case

DVD 20th Anniv More Info 20th Anniversary Region Code: 1 UPC: 14381074628 Languages: English Dolby Digital Mono (Primary)	ON ORDER Ships when stock arrives	$9.99
Blu-ray More Info Region Code: 1 UPC: 014381733556 Languages: English Dolby Digital Mono (Primary)	In stock and ready to ship	$16.99 (15% off) List Price: ~~$19.99~~

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From the liner notes

Carrying a mysterious wicker basket wherever he goes, Duane Bradley checks into a flea-bag hotel in New York’s Times Square. What’s in the basket, you ask? Why, it’s Duane’s hideously misshapen Siamese twin brother, Belial! Together, they’re in town to hunt down and wreak havoc on the sleazy surgeons who separated them...

With memorably gruesome scenes – such as the screaming woman with the scalpels stuck in her face – and some disturbing stop-motion animation, Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case is one of the most beloved, cheerfully demented cult classics of all time.

So go ahead and open the basket... if you dare!

3 Reasons To buy this film

So awesome our staff wrote two separate review for it.
Gratuitous boobs!
A true cult classic!

Review

Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck), a wet behind the ears little honky, has just arrived in good old New York City, circa 1982 (which is like, the most dangerous place you could possible be, ever) carrying an adorable padlocked picnic basket. No big deal right? I mean, in 1980s NYC you’re most likely just trying not to get raped, or graffiti’d on. You’re probably thinking “Why should I give a shit about a honky with a basket? Hey look, it’s the Twin Towers! Oh shit, someone just stole my wallet!” right? Well, 1980s New Yorker, nowww you’re dead! Because that’s no ordinary padlocked picnic basket, no sir, that basket contains a grotesque screaming blob that was one Duane’s Siamese twin, and he’s out for revenge, or some other shit.

The acting is hilarious, the kill scenes and perfectly, stupidly gory, and the blob looks like an aborted fetus with teeth. Basket Case is the direct manifestation of everything I want to be in life. Particularly pleasing is the disturbing and often comical mannerisms of the freak (he has a name, but we here at TLACult refuse to speak the name of the beast, as he is an abomination). When he’s not wailing and trashing hotel rooms, he’s hanging out in toilet bowls, climbing on the side of buildings and being creepily rocked in people’s arms in a woolen blanket and sang to. Also, be on the look out for sweet, sweet boobage from Susan (Terri Susan Smith) in the scene where the blob brother creeps into her room to strangle her in an odd, sexually frustrated, why wasn’t I born with a penis kind of way. Mmmmm, horny.

-- Seymour Skinher

If John Waters ever makes a splatter movie, it won't be any better than this, one of independent horrordom's most cherished cult classics. A country bumpkin tries to make it in New York City while saddled with his mutant brother that he carries around Times Square in a wicker basket. Few serious filmmakers have captured the seamier side of the city better than this little gross-out gem.

Product Format Information

DVD : $9.99 (20th Anniversary)

Availability: ON ORDER
Ships when stock arrives
Region Code: 1
UPC: 14381074628

Studio : Something Weird

Languages: English Dolby Digital Mono (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33
Extras: 2 Trailers
Features:
Brand-new film-to-tape digital transfer
Clips from Beverly Bonner's TV show "Beverly Bonner's Laugh Track"
Two radio spots; two radio interviews with Terri Susan Smith
Documentaries: "In Search of the Hotel Broslin"
Outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage from the director's personal collection
TV spot
Audio commentary: by director Frank Henenlotter, producer Edgar Ievins, and stars Beverly Bonner and Terri Susan Smith
Gallery of exploitation art and behind-the-scenes photos

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Blu-ray : $16.99

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Region Code: 1
UPC: 014381733556

Studio : Something Weird

Languages: English DTS-HD 5.1 (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33, Widescreen
Extras: Trailers
Features:
New full-frame HD transfer preserving the original 16mm camera ratio!
Introduction: New Video Introduction by Frank Henenlotter!
Audio commentary: Audio Commentary by director Frank Henenlotter, producer Edgar
Outtakes: Rare Outtakes and Behind-the-Scenes Footage from the directors
Short film: 2001 Video Short: In Search of the Hotel Broslin!
Two Rare BASKET CASE Radio Spots!
Photo gallery: Gallery of BASKET CASE Exploitation Art and Behind-the-Scene