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Frank HenenlotterDrehbuch:
Frank HenenlotterKamera:
Bruce TorbetBesetzung:
Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Robert Vogel, Diana Browne, Lloyd Pace, Bill Freeman, Joe ClarkeInhalte(1)
Duane Bradley, ein junger und charmanter Mann vom Lande, bezieht mit einem Rucksack und einem Korb ein Motelzimmer in New York. Was niemand weiß: Der Korb enthält Duanes deformierten siamesischen Zwilling, der kurz nach der Geburt von seinem Bruder getrennt wurde. Die Reise nach New York soll ein Rachefeldzug gegen die Ärzte werden. Doch an der Rezeption eines der zukünftigen Opfer lernt Duane ... (Prime Video)
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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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