Words//Gemma Ross
Twitter//@kubrxck
★★★½☆☆☆☆☆☆ (3.5/10)
Basket Case - Starring Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, and Beverley Bonner
If Marilyn Manson were to make a film... it would probably look something like this. This is also the first 80's flick that I've rated WELL below average. To be fair to it, there are a lot of things in this to be deemed worthy of the big screen, but an exaggerated and pretentious movie does not bode well with me. Frank Henenlotter has truly mastered the ability to write nonsensical story-lines with few thrills or even a good, not quite so melodramatic ending. This film will literally make your brain hurt, and maybe give you a taste (or a good bite) of what independent 80's films were all about. 1982 was not a year for exciting films, with the exception of E.T and Blade Runner of course, but Basket Case comes no where near those standards. If you're a fan of knock-off gore and horrendously cringe-worthy humour, or even just in the mood for a laugh (at the film, not with it), then Basket Case might be your best bet.
Twitter//@kubrxck
★★★½☆☆☆☆☆☆ (3.5/10)
Basket Case - Starring Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, and Beverley Bonner
If Marilyn Manson were to make a film... it would probably look something like this. This is also the first 80's flick that I've rated WELL below average. To be fair to it, there are a lot of things in this to be deemed worthy of the big screen, but an exaggerated and pretentious movie does not bode well with me. Frank Henenlotter has truly mastered the ability to write nonsensical story-lines with few thrills or even a good, not quite so melodramatic ending. This film will literally make your brain hurt, and maybe give you a taste (or a good bite) of what independent 80's films were all about. 1982 was not a year for exciting films, with the exception of E.T and Blade Runner of course, but Basket Case comes no where near those standards. If you're a fan of knock-off gore and horrendously cringe-worthy humour, or even just in the mood for a laugh (at the film, not with it), then Basket Case might be your best bet.
If you carried around your detached Siamese twin in a basket, I guess you'd probably end up like Duane too. All I want to know is how this film ever made a sequel, let alone a third (and a possible fourth). It's also a shame that these films are being highly rated somewhere, by someone... or something, maybe as a laugh or maybe because someone out there actually really likes them, who knows.