This is the tragic tale of two brothers Dwayne and Belial Bradley. Dwayne is a sensitive and naive young man. Belial is a fifty pound butterball turkey with a face and two arms and a real bad attitude. Lets take a look into the past shall we. Dwayne and Belial were born as conjoined Siamese twins. Belial was a growth on his brother's right side. Tragedy struck at birth for the Bradley boys as their mother died during childbirth. Mr.Bradley would always blame the twins for this, mainly poor Belial. In fact if not for their Aunt, Mr.Bradley would have had Belial killed and cut off at birth.

The boy’s Aunt raises them until they are about twelve years old, when out of the blue their father returns home with a sinister agenda. Wanting to make his son normal Mr.Bradley hires two veterinarians Dr. Liftlander and Dr.Kutter along with a half ass Dr. Needleman M.D. The three together sedate poor Dwayne and against his will remove Belial from his body. The father then throws Belial away in the trash, but do not fret for all is not lost.

Dwayne has always had a telepathic link with his brother, feels Belial call to him, and in a very tender moment we see Belial reach to his brother from inside a trash bag. Later that night both Dwayne and Belial seperate their father, in half. Belial and Dwayne continue to live with their Aunt for the next few years, but after her death Dwayne and Belial pay a visit to a doctor who had some records of what had happen to them, after learning a little info Dwayne and Belial head to New York for a little payback on the ones who seperated them.

First off I loved this movie, it is incredible. Belial is the man, or well the head. His brother Dwayne carries him around in a wicker basket and feeds him a steady diet of hamburgers and raw hotdogs. Belial is like a spy in the way he can infiltrate a building and lay waste to all inside, it is great. They use a cheap claymation to show Belial move around, but most of the time it is a puppet. Although Belial can communicate with Dwayne all he can do otherwise is scream. While in NY Dwayne begins to have feelings for a girl he meets, Belial gets jealous and thinks Dwayne is going to leave him for the girl, this drives a wedge between the brothers that ends in a nasty family fight.

I also got to add a few more things to this review that literally cracked me up. First when the doctors seperate the two brothers watch when the drugs take effect on Belial, when his head hits the table I about died and had to rewind the movie like ten times. The second is when Belial visits a prostitute next door and steals her panties for a little sniffing. Watching him pull the panties into the basket I was just cheering him on "Go Belial, it's your birthday!" I shouted. From the corner of the living room my wife chipped in with "Damn you watch some retarded shit." I guess she will just never understand.

This one is fantastic and truly what a cult classic should be. An excellent horror experience.

10 of 10

Let me start by saying that Prime and I usually tend to have the same taste in movies. More on SciFiWatch than here, but similar none the less. That being said, this is one time we do not see eye to eye.

When I received this film from Netflix and popped it into my DVD player, I thought that the last person to rent this video had replaced the film with a homemade horror movie. Alas, I was wrong and this in fact was the film that has found a large cult following.

I think that the following comes as a result of people thinking that the movie is soooo bad it was good. Well, I don't quite see it that way. This movie was sooo bad it made me laugh at parts where I was supposed to be shocked and/or horrified. I understand that this film is popular but I had a hard time seeing why. Just plain bad.

It could possibly be a good remake if done properly (easy on the CGI and better acting).

1 out of 5 wicker baskets

Ahhhh,the classics! Gotta give it up to Prime for a dead on review of this nasty little bone cracker. One of the original indie horror faves, Basket Case still manages to elicit a ghoulish chill (and a few decent laughs) even today.

While the effects are crude, for director Henlotter's style they were oddly apt. I perceive Basket Case as one of the few horror flicks which actually benefits from low production values. The grimy, grindhouse quality of the F/X perfectly compliments a gritty view of the sleazy underside of the big city after dark.

Also in the plus column, I actually came to care about Duane. Kevin Van Hentenryck has an unassuming, easygoing quality which I found quite compelling. Interesting how the outcome of a movie matters more when you actually give a rats ass about the characters!

That said, there can be no doubt that Belial..or, as I like to call him, "Belial the Pissed"...is one of the all-time great horror movie villians.

The stop-motion sequences may very well have been my favorite, particularly one "piss-yourself-laughing-if-you-have-a-full-bladder" shot of the little lump of malevolence picking up a bed by one post and slamming it repeatedly into the floor or their squalid little apartment! Awesome stuff, and a must add to any true horror buffs collection!

Eight out of Ten Baskets Full O' Gore