Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 4
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1982 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 10,650
The poor social skills of a young yokel turn out to have a horrifying explanation in this low-budget splatterfest, which marks the debut of Frankenhooker director Frank Henenlotter. The film begins with a bloody prologue and the arrival of young Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) at a broken-down New York hotel full of drunks, hookers, and assorted weirdos. An upstate native with few big-city survival skills, the earnest Duane seems slightly off. He flashes lots of bills at the hotel manager,
Jan 1, 1982 Wide
Dec 8, 1998
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The DIY effects may look naively amateur today but there's a loving B-movie attitude and a genuine sense of character to the "monster," the misshapen, fleshy, snaggle-toothed Belial.
The Blu-ray release of Basket Case gives fans and newcomers alike the perfect excuse for hanging out with the demented denizens of the Hotel Broslin.
Delicious offbeat tongue-in-cheek humor.
Its singularity makes it far more valuable than any number of movies made at an ostensibly higher level of quality.
Uproariously disgusting
A classic slice of horror! "bloody" good fun!
pure 80s sleeeeeas
like Eraserhead updated for the slasher generation, Basket Case is a deranged psychodrama, full of gleefully gory set-pieces, quirky humour, and some impossibly moving pathos.
If you're in the right mood, this monster mash is vile fun.
A thing of modest B-movie beauty.
O culto a este filme prova que absolutamente qualquer porcaria pode, de uma maneira ou de outra, despertar o interesse de alguém.
Good creepy Hell's Kitchen horror flick.
This trash cinema classic was an early staple of VHS splatterfests, and even though it's definitely a dated film, the entertainment value still holds up. Basket Case is not just a horror film, it's sort of an amalgam of different things. It has some nice gory moments, some strange horrific scenes, an odd
April 26, 2007
Super Reviewer
Ultra low budget gore fest concerning socially awkward Duane Bradley who checks into a New York Hotel carrying a large mysterious basket. He has to take care of some unfinished business. The run-down seedy hotel is rather depressing and the mood is spare and desolate. There's a feeling of hopelessness in the décor from
December 11, 2009Super Reviewer
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