September 5, 2018
Written by: Frank Henenlotter
Starring: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith
Budget: $35,000
Quote: "Without words. I just here him whispering in my brain. Sometimes he talks for hours and won't shut up. i used to be able to talk to him like that, but that was when we were still connected. Our aunt said it was our special gift. But since we've been separated, I can't do it anymore, but he can still do it to me. In fact, he's even better at it now, he always knows what I'm thinking..."
Trivia: Most of the credits that appear at the end of the film are fake. The crew was very small and, rather than repeat the same names over and over again, they decided to just make up names.
Oh, Basket Case. Such a weird and amazing film. I first saw this movie a dozen years ago when my friend Raul told me about it. After watching it, I loved it but could not believe that it could ever have been made.... it's just too odd, in a genre that already prides itself on it eccentricities. The effects are largely practical and done with a shoestring budget but hold up as much today as they did in 1982 (sure the stop-go animation for the monster look like stop-go animation but it too adds to the skewed nature of the film). What really makes the movie interesting is that while the deformed brother is more silly looking than scary or gross, I came to feel for it. The movie really makes the viewer side with the deformed monster as the film progresses. I felt sorry for the little guy... until maybe the end when things just get bat-shit crazy.
