Tagline(s): | Look who's back! |
What's in the basket NOW! | |
We're gonna need a bigger basket! | |
We were cut apart AND NOW...we're together again! | |
This time he's not alone. | |
Belial Is Back! And This Time He's Brought Along a Few Friends! | |
Look who's back... |
Tagline(s): | Look who's back! |
What's in the basket NOW! | |
We're gonna need a bigger basket! | |
We were cut apart AND NOW...we're together again! | |
This time he's not alone. | |
Belial Is Back! And This Time He's Brought Along a Few Friends! | |
Look who's back... |
Oblivious | |
Maybe He's an Orderly Taking His Laundry Home with Him Though under arrest, Duane escapes from the hospital with his blob of a deformed brother in a huge basket, and a half-dozen people fail to notice him. Even though his head is bandaged and he's limping along in a leg cast. One of those "I guess they had to escape or there'd be no movie" deals. |
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Wackyland in the Attic Grandma Ruth shows Duane and Belial their new home and introduces them to the family of freaks in the attic. It was really hard to choose one; all the attic-dwellers are exceedingly lame: moon-head (think "Mac Tonite"), bumpy-face, big-teeth, and others. But if you had to finger only one, the giant mouth-on-legs that sings opera would win hands -- er, tongue-down. |
Best One-Liner | |
"Hey, These Inkblots All Look Like Me!" At Grandma Ruth's Monster Therapy Clinic, Ruth has a session with Belial. Slowly and seriously, she says: "I understand that sadness. I understand your pain. But ripping the faces off people may not be in your best interest." I don't know how she kept a straight face. |
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I Must've Accidentally Hit "Zoom" A nosy reporter has heard rumors of Ruth's freak farm and "sneaks" up to the attic for some pictures of the monsters. He pops his upper half up the trapdoor and snaps some photos. With each flash, it's clear (to us, anyway) the monsters are moving closer and closer toward him, but all he does is flash away with his camera until it's far too late. |
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You See, Timmy, When Two Latex Monster Puppets Love Each Other Very Much... Get out the shrimp fork before you watch this scene, folks, 'cause you won't be needing your eyes afterward. Belial does the nasty (and I do mean NASTY) with his female blob counterpart and unfortunately for sanity, nothing is left to the imagination, probably because human imagination can't begin to visualize anything close to the reality of seeing it. Moans, groans and (for lack of a better term here) "facial expressions" abound. As if that weren't bad enough, we cut to Duane and Susan in the bedroom, about to follow suit, when suddenly Susan's freakish nature is revealed: She is three years pregnant, and has a grotesque hand puppet living in her abdomen. So Duane does the only sensible thing and pushes her out the window (actually, she flies out, like the hero in the classic Smithee Witchboard fall). All in all, only one word describes the whole thing: "EEEEWWWWWWW!!!" |
Director | Claim to Fame |
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Director of the Basket Case series and Frankenhooker, as well as Bad Biology. |
Actor | Character | Claim to Fame |
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Duane Bradley | Pretty much just the Basket Case guy...and the guy with the basket in Brain Damage. |
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Granny Ruth | Plays the distinguished-looking old motherly type, usually. Had parts in Superman III, Short Cuts, and Throw Momma from the Train (not Momma). |
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Susan | Was Jenny Robinson in The Wilderness Family series. |
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Marcie Elliot | Mrs. Hallett in The Greatest Showman; Cecilia Kelly in You've Got Mail; small TV parts in the 90's and 2000s. |
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Casey | Casey in the Basket Case and Frankenhooker franchises (which I guess are in the same universe?). |
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News Woman | Started out playing reporters in movies; ended up as Joyce Wrigley in TV's "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" franchise. |
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Police Commissioner | Was Pa Harris in The Color Purple, Harry Cupper on "Shining Time Station," Archie in Black Vampire, and the big screen's titular Super Spook. |
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Cop | When he's not on daytime soaps, he seems to play lots of cops, on the big screen and small. |
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Lou the Editor | AKA "Herb Evers," he was in The Brain That Would Not Die, Claws, and Basket Case 2, which would be his final role. Was in a LOT of '60s-through'80s TV. |
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