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Director: Frank Henenlotter
Year: 1982
Country: USA
Runtime: 91 min

Also released as

Frères de sang
El Caso del Canasto
Veriveljet
To kalathi tou tromou
Существо в корзине
O Segredo do Cesto
Basket Case (¿Dónde te escondes, hermano?)
Korgväskan
Sepetteki ölüm
Basket Case - Der unheimliche Zwilling
Basket Case - O Mistério do Cesto
Frère de sang
Το καλάθι του τρόμου
バスケットケース
El asesino de la canasta
Wiklinowy koszyk

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Basket Case

Name: Basket Case
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Genre: Horror, Slasher, Body Horror
Released: 1982
Duration: 91 min

Basket Case is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Frank Henenlotter.

A young man carries his surgically-separated deformed twin in a wicker basket, and they are taking revenge.

Duane checks into a grimy Times Square hotel with a large locked basket. Inside is Belial, the malformed twin cut away from his side as a child, and the two of them are hunting the doctors who separated them.

Frank Henenlotter made it for around 35,000 dollars on the sleaziest blocks of early-80s 42nd Street, and the location is the film: the real fleapit hotels, peep shows and hustlers give it a texture no set could.

Belial is a lump of latex animated by stop motion and hand, and the crudeness is the charm; when the film wants him to rampage it switches to a shrieking claymation that is truly deranged.

It is a genuine grindhouse artefact and one of the definitive New York horror films.

Two sequels, both broader and gorier, neither with the first one's filth.