Wow! Such a good movie.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

This very much reminded me of The Deadly Spawn (1983). Both are tatty horrors based on a silly premise. It is well worth watching though and this enjoyable romp through the trials and tribulations of having a separated Siamese twin that can telepathically communicate, this can be enjoyed by all insane people. This really is silly but it is entertaining. The effects are spot on. The story is spot on. The whole package is great although don't expect anything highbrow.

First things first, this movie is far from perfect. And I do mean FAR! Some of the acting is pretty weak, the sound mixing is really bad at times, and so on. But, this movie is so entertaining and so enjoyable that I cannot help but adore it! For me, this is the peak of exploitation cinema, a weird, cheap NYC horror flick with a gritty look, self referential humor, tons of ridiculous blood and gore, and a storyline that is potentially disturbing, but too fun to genuinely distress anyone over the age of 12. It's a masterpiece of shock cinema mainly because of its humor and ability to engage the viewer. At first, the characters seemed a little dry to me, but over time I really started to care for them, which is why it kind of made me sad the film had to end on such a tragic note; however, the tragedy is obscured by a dark cloud of black comedy, making me smile along with some of the more depressing scenes.

Country boy Duane Bradley takes a motel room in New York with no luggage other than a basket. But it contains his surgically removed Siamese twin who is not only physically deformed so badly the doctors don't really consider him human, but is also the vindictive drive of their trip, with the purpose to kill off all those he blames. But in the reception of one of those doctors, Duane gets his first ever date and wants to start a new life too, but his brother has other pans......This is another one of those movies that I should have seen a long time ago, because I just can't see where the love for this film comes from. Its funny for all the wrong reasons, the acting is appalling, I'm sure a lot of those people didn't know they were being filmed, especially those in the lobby, and my gosh, that scene where Belial has a freak out, is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.I appreciate the film is over thirty years old, and the budget was minuscule, but please, Craven made a more effective horror in The Hills Have Eyes almost eight years earlier, and I'm sure the budget wasn't much more.The film has such a dirty feel to it, the setting, the people, the hair, it's all grimly lit, and this detracts you from the absurdity of it all.I'll see the other two for sure, but honestly, I'm not a fan.

Directed by Frank Henenlotter, nothing says, low budget, then a puppet monstrous attacking people in a silly matter. The movie produce two sequels by him, 1990's Basket Case 2 and 1991's Basket Case 3: The Progeny. The movie is about Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) who is carrying a basket around NYC with a cannibalism monster in it. At birth, the creature was attached to Duane's side. At an early age, they were surgically separated against their will and his brother, Belial, the creature was left for dead. Now, Belial seeks revenge on the doctors with the help of his brother. It's no secret that Belial is in Duane's basket as it was given away by theatrical posters, DVD cover art and more. I would love to see more suspense before the revealed. The action scene is some of the cheesy special effects, I have ever witness. Belial comes alive, through the use of a puppet in some scenes and stop motion clay animation in others. When Belial's hand is seen attacking his victims, it is really a glove worn by the director. The hands never does match up with the full size puppet. To avoid showing Belial's obnoxiously unrealistic, the camera oftentimes follows his point of view close to the ground and with jerky movements that is hard to watch. You can't take him as seriously threat with scenes of him stealing women's underwear, chows down on hamburgers, and leaves one of the doctors with a face full of scalpels. You just can't. I also don't understand the logic of the supernatural powers, Belial has. In the film, they make him seem limited by movement, that his brother Duane has to carry him around, but in other scenes, he can walk blocks upon blocks of street alone with no legs, and kill somebody twice his size. Not only that, he can climb walls, pick up beds and tossed them, and somehow jump off building without getting hurt. Yes, but somehow that last power disappears toward the end. Where in the hells did these powers come from? Because in the flashbacks, he seems pretty helpless without his brother. Also, Belial and Duane having a psychic bond that they can read each other's mind or something like that, but it's badly use. Somehow, Duane can understand, Belial quiet questioning, and complaining voice. Couldn't they use a voice-over to make it look like Belial is speaking with his mind, rather than mute talking? The blood, and gore is just over the top, and the actor's reacting to the pain is hilarious bad. I have to say, the scene of Belial raping a nude woman is pretty controversial. It got some complain by the crew during production, that they almost left the project. It was kinda a big deal since, most of crew were made out of four people that made the film. The credits that appear on the end of the film of the large crew were fake. I have to say to them, what type of film did they think they were making? If a person, in this case a woman, gets brutally murdered on screen, that's just your basic gore-fest. But if a woman gets brutally murdered while in attire, a pose or situation that is meant to arouse the male audience, or resembles some kind of sexual violence, that's just down-right bad taste. Come on! Was that scene in bad taste? Yes, but its tame compare to other early 1980's horror films. Was the male nudity streaking scene help the story? Not really. Well, clearly this is a metaphor for his repressed sexuality. That is why they killed their mother, why they were separated at the edge of puberty, why they passed by all of those sex shops without going in, and why the receptionist was always off-putting. There is also that Shakespeare's Tempest reading scene, in which the boys' aunt reads them a speech by Caliban, a deformed, animalistic creature that once attempted to rape the protagonist's daughter and was enslaved as a result. And those prostitutes at the end also represent something, but the symbolism is pretty lost here. The nudity wasn't needed. I have to say, all the acting is this film is awful. The worst has to be, its two leads. First off, Kevin Van Hentenryck acts and talks like a dumbass. While, Terri Susan Smith as Duane's love interest Sharon, who comes across as rude, and mean-spirited. That attitude really shows when Duane tell her, he haven't got time to go site seeing yet. She react in anger like New York City is beautiful in the late 70's and early 1980's. I'm sorry, but it's not, with its hookers, grindhouses, triple-X theaters, etc., compared to what it is now. I'll take NYC now. It seems out of character. I just don't see how both could end up liking each other. The love interest arch seem rushed. I found Robert Vogel as the Hotel Broslin Manager as my favorite character in the film. The reason why is because of his New Yorker accent and attitude, added with the fact that he looks like Super Mario makes me laugh. Joe Clarke as Brian 'Mickey' O'Donovan has some silly one-liners. Something Weird Video did a really great job with the DVD. I was a little disappointed that the movie was only available in full screen format, but the amount of extras included was truly amazing. I really enjoyed the piece where the director goes back and tries to locate certain locations from the movie. It was funny when they got locked out. Overall: it's one of those it's so bad, it's good, type of a movie. It's good for a few laughs, but as a scary horror movie, it's mediocre at best. This movie will forever have that cult movie following, due to its B-list horror schlock.