Basketcase (1982)

Director: Frank Henenlotter
Starring: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner & Robert Vogel

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The acting in this one...terrible. The premise, however, is so bad and absurd that it's worth watching despite (or maybe because of) the poor performances. It involves a mutant Siamese twin being carried around in a basket by his twin brother killing the doctors that separated them years after their birth. It also involves the brother talking to his mute mutant brother and a sexual attack by the mutant (who, by the way, has no genitals). Absolutely absurd.

It's because of this absurdity that this film is worth watching. It's like the director got the worst actors he could find to say the worst lines and then gleefully through the poorly made-up mutant brother on the only woman who would get naked in his film. Unbelievable and hilarious. Worth seeing in a bad movie marathon but not recommended watching alone and/or by one's self.

February 14
friend's apartment TV, late night

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