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5.4/10
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Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.
Kevin VanHentenryck
- Duane
- (as Kevin Van Hentenryck)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaFrank Henenlotter admits to being fueled by Jolt Cola during the filming of [ Frankenhooker (1990)\ and this film, to the point where Jolt Cola agreed to sponsor them, with there being publicity photos of the freaks drinking Jolt Cola and wearing Jolt Cola brand clothing.
- GoofsAfter a scene in the kitchen where Duane is wearing a blue shirt he turns to leave the room and is suddenly wearing a yellowish shirt during the last shot of the scene, which was clearly shot on at a different time on a different day. Not too long after the kitchen scene he is back to wearing the blue shirt.
- Quotes
Granny Ruth: I understand your pain, Belial, but ripping the faces off people may not be in your best interest.
- ConnectionsEdited from Basket Case (1982)
- SoundtracksDai Campi, Dai Prapi
from "Mefistofele"
Written by Arrigo Boito (as A. Boito)
Performed by Charles Rudolph
Featured review
Second coming for Belial!
If you have seen the first movie you'll probably be wondering how can another Basket Case movie be a continuation of the first! Well, it's easy enough, but I don't want to ruin your "surprise"!! Anyway it begins just from where the first end. Soon, just a matter of few minutes, you are introduced in a new character that will also link this one to its sequel: that's Granny Ruth, one of the most entertaining in the whole series! This little, mid-aged lady together with an girl help Duane and Belial to escape and shelter from the police, chasing them for the first movie's massacre! Soon you discover that they're not alone in Ruth's house: not only the girl helping Granny Ruth is there, but an entire freaks community! Seems like Duane and Belial found a family, but soon troubles arrive as a journalist discover the Bradley twins shelter! It's time for massacre again!
To be honest I found this one really entertaining, much more then the first one that was more like an"original" slasher movie! This time Gabe Bartalos give "tru life" to Belial, using an animatronic model instead of a still one animated in stop motion! It really looks great! Also the other freaks look really good, and there are really a lot! A social critic find place in this movie too: as Henenlotter did in all his movies, any "strange thing" you see here sounds like a metaphor of true life. So the freaks community been chased just for their "differences" from the mass seems to be a more intense and "intellectual" reading key for this movie, much more than you could have been thinking.
Crazy and really good special effects, technically much better than the average low budget movie, funny plot: it's got much more than you could expect from a movie of this kind!
I can't say if I prefer this one ore the next one, but sure this two are very different from the first Basket Case: here you will find true comedy painted in a gory way, but no suspense or thrills!
To be honest I found this one really entertaining, much more then the first one that was more like an"original" slasher movie! This time Gabe Bartalos give "tru life" to Belial, using an animatronic model instead of a still one animated in stop motion! It really looks great! Also the other freaks look really good, and there are really a lot! A social critic find place in this movie too: as Henenlotter did in all his movies, any "strange thing" you see here sounds like a metaphor of true life. So the freaks community been chased just for their "differences" from the mass seems to be a more intense and "intellectual" reading key for this movie, much more than you could have been thinking.
Crazy and really good special effects, technically much better than the average low budget movie, funny plot: it's got much more than you could expect from a movie of this kind!
I can't say if I prefer this one ore the next one, but sure this two are very different from the first Basket Case: here you will find true comedy painted in a gory way, but no suspense or thrills!
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- Budget
- $2,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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