Basket Case (1982)

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There are a lot of low, low budget horror movies. Most times they are badly filmed, with terrible dialog, lousy effects and the worse acting you've ever seen. So why do we keep going back to the well, and watching these terrible films? Because for every 100 films of crap like Zombie Nightmare, or Shock Treatment (the awful sequel to Rocky Horror Picture Show), you get a gem like Frank Henenlotter's Basket Case.

The plot is very simple: A young man who goes to New York City carries a wicker basket with him everywhere. This basket contains his deformed Siamese twin brother, who wants vengeance on the Doctors who separated them. When the ‘normal' young man meets a girl who he falls for, and she begins to intrude on his relationship with her brother, tragedy ensues.

What sets this film apart is the great gore and violence, to say nothing of a pretty funny (if dark) sense of humor that pervades the film. Henenlotter knew enough to throw a great amount of blood up on the screen, but it never feels gratuitous: it's not gore for the sake of gore, but to punish the doctor's who ripped them apart. The deformed twin is made to by sympathetic, despite his killing spree. There is one particularly famous scene (Joe Bob Briggs wrote about it enough, and I'm not going into details and spoil it for you guys) that can upset casual horror viewers, and even have true horror buffs(like, oh I don't know, people who read this web site) drop their jaws in disbelief. ...

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