Director:
Frank HenenlotterGuión:
Frank HenenlotterCámara:
Bruce TorbetReparto:
Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Robert Vogel, Diana Browne, Lloyd Pace, Bill Freeman, Joe ClarkeSinopsis(1)
El inocente Duane Bradley llega a Nueva York transportando una cesta que contiene a su hermano Belial —un monstruo producto de un aborto fallido— que ha quedad inhumanamente deformado por lo que la poca gente conoce su existencia duda de que sea humano. Después de que su madre muriera en el parto, el padre de los gemelos unidos espantado de su deformidad se refiere a ellos simplemente como "el chico y el monstruo". Apenado por la muerte de su querida esposa, trae a tres doctores con las esperanza de que logren separar a los gemelos para que así Duane pueda llevar una vida normal y confía en que Belial muera durante la operación. Pero Belial ahora busca venganza... (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
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A clean, undistilled grindhouse flick that makes up for its obviously low budget with shocking unpredictability, sick inventiveness, bizarre humour and great passion for the cause. It’s shot on grainy 16mm in the dirtiest corners of New York that would make Scorsese's Taxi Driver envious. Someone on the internet aptly summed it up by saying that “it's like E.T. if it was directed by a psychopath”. Basket Case has a premise similar to Larry Cohen's horror film It's Alive, about a murderous baby, except that here the murderer is a tiny mutant Siamese twin being carried around in a wicker basket by his brother. Unlike It's Alive, however, Basket Case doesn't take itself seriously at all, it has drive and manages to sell its main monster perfectly. You won't get its visage and loud roar out of your head right away.
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