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The early 80s had plenty of slashers high budget films and low budget films. There are plenty of great 80s films and well I love most of the 80s horror films, as you can tell by now I am a huge horror fan and while it's sometimes easy to please new horror films just don't succeed, today's horror films are all about, sex, nudity, drugs, and stupid characters who are played by talentless actors who were only chosen for their looks. Yes true, back in the 80s there was terrible acting and some movies were/are bad but they still succeeded at either giving us good characters that are likeable or plenty of blood and slashing. So with Basket Case, as usual I'll cover the good, the bad, and the ugly, speaking of ugly Belial is no hound dog himself.
The Good: Some characters are interesting and fleshed out a little SOME, most of the acting ranges from good to a little bad, for the low budget the puppetry and stop motion looks good, the score is weird but in a good way which goes with the film nicely, the filmography is good, the dialogue is okay, and the gore well...the gore is great and there's plenty of it. Oh and by the way for those who have not read my other reviews it's really hard to gross me out and this one did not gross me out but then again I'm a guy who buried dead pets that were ran over in the road(for my family).
The Bad: A little bit of the acting is bad.
The Ugly: Nothing was down right terrible.
The Story: Duane carries around a whisker basket, and every one is dieing to find out what's inside,literally. Well Duane will only tell you what's in the basket if he's a little drunk. To tell you guys the truth, Belial is in the basket, he and Duane were Siamese twin brothers. Ever since Belial was baby his family treated him like a monster except for Duane and their Aunt. The brothers' father forces them to be separated at the age of 12. Once separated they keep Duane and throw Belial in a trash bag and leave him with the trash outside. Duane rescues poor Belial and the two brothers kill their father while their Aunt covers for them. Now at the age of I guess 19 or 20, the brothers go to New York where they stay at a hotel and butcher the doctors who separated them who actually deserve it. It's explained that Belial and Duane when attached had a telepathic bond, however when separated Duane lost the telepathic bond while Belial still had it.
Some facts about the film: Near the end originally Henenlotter wanted to have Belial go down the street and go to Duane's girlfriend's house. However there wasn't enough money so he wanted to instead do something really weird. While Belial goes down the street we get a shot of Duane sweating and having a dream of himself running down the street, which in the dream Duane=Belial and through this we understand that both can feel what each other is doing it was hinted at that Belial could do this but not Duane until this point. When Duane is running in the street he is completely naked something that I was not aware of or even remembered (I saw this on cable a long time ago at the age of 10 while my parents were asleep). Anyway when you watch the film you'll see Duane's junk, now I'm not homosexual but it does not bother me that much since because it's normal it's called the human body suck it up and deal with it.
Basket Case had two sequels which I love as well, Basket Case 2, and Basket Case 3: The Progeny. Neither show male nudity but we do see Belial get it on with a female that's like him (that's in part 2), in part 3 we see said female give birth.
Frank Henenlotter would not only direct the sequels but direct another two fun awesome favorite flicks of mine, Brain Damage 1988 and Frankenhooker. In the film Brain Damage we get a cameo by Duane with his basket which Belial is in.
Now on the DVD case that is Belial he is a twisted lump of flesh with 2 arms, and a face. He has no feet but can move using his hands and arms. Belial also has an anger problem and super strength.
There is only one problem that I had with this film and it's that the ending was too short. Don't get me wrong it's a good ending with great tension but the fight SPOILER between the brothers should have lasted a bit longer. To be honest I love Basket Case a lot and the sequels.
This is a film I expected to get a bare bones DVD release but it didn't, the DVD is full of great special features.
The DVD contents:
Main feature
2 trailers
1 TV spot
Outtakes and behind the scenes footage
Special video short: In search of the hotel Broslin
Photo gallery
2 rare Basket Case radio spots
2 radio interviews with actress Terri Susan Smith
Clips from Beverley Bonner's comedy TV show
and an Audio commentary
The DVD comes with a scene selections paper which shows the lovely Belial. On the DVD back cover if you remove the white square sticker it says "SOLD AS A PACKAGE DO NOT SEPARATE" weather that's how Something Weird Video puts on all their DVDs or as a joke it cracks me up.
All in all for me Basket Case is a 5/5 stars.
Warning: This film is not for children, not for the squeamish, not for non B movie fans, and not for the casual movie goer. There's female and male nudity, and plenty of blood. Keep in mind I'm fine with nudity in films but keep it to a minimum, there is not a whole lot of nudity only two shots one of Duane and one of his girlfriend, neither bother me but may bother some.
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Finally a movie I loved as a kid has finally come to Blu-Ray
Another child hood favorite movie that deserved a Blu-Ray release but to me does not look like a 4K restoration the DVD release by Something Weird Video actually looks better but the extras totally make up for this. to me this film which I still love to this day is very much watchable and enjoyable though it would have been cool if the special effects were better and more gore none the less this movie is still great like other movies seeing the Twin Towers aka The World Trade Center which I used to go to on school trips as well when I got older I worked there as well made me miss that place more so the people I met and knew there that lost their lives.
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