- Year
- 1981
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Frank Henenlotter
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (25/100)
- Also known as
- Frères de sang
Basket Case
$35,000, shot on 42nd Street, and completely charming. The best kind of cheap.
Made for around $35,000 on the grime of early-80s 42nd Street, and all the better for it. A young man carries his surgically separated, deformed twin around in a wicker basket, and the two take revenge on the doctors who split them. The creature is stop-motion and hand-puppet and completely charming.
Frank Henenlotter shoots the Times Square of the moment it was about to disappear, which makes the film a document as much as a horror comedy. The tenderness between the brothers is real under the splatter.
Cheap, deranged and lovable.
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