 Every filmmaker should watch basket case before they make a single fucking See how they did it on such a low budget and did it right Hello and welcome to today's edition of frightfully forgotten horror movies, but before we get started. What are we drinking today? We're drinking a beer from a semi local brewery channel marker logger from Lake of the Woods Brewery today We're gonna be talking about 1982's basket case this movie is like perfection The movie was directed by the man Frank Hennan lauder. He did Franken Hooker. Hey spy We covered that one click the link above and he did brain damage too. Oh, this feels like you got a real monster down there We did that one as well Kevin van Henterik is in basket case and he didn't really do much else He just played the same character Basket case one two and three and he was also in a brain damage, too He had a little cameo on the subway as this character Yeah, with bill. I'll do so basket case starts off when we see this doctor leaving his house at night Here's something kind of rustling around in the trees and he's really shit in a brick Yeah, he gets pretty scared and he runs back into the house. You see this hand kind of Switch off the fumes box is weird to form the hand The doctor sees like shadow of things moving around you get super freaked out and pulls out this gun and just started shooting Yeah, you hear that breathing to And then we see this hand come up and grab the doctor's face and start clawing this shit out of them We then see Dwayne holding this wicker basket coming to New York and wandering the streets And he's trying to find a hotel to check in at of course he checks into some seedy hotel The clerk of course has got like a wife beater on suspenders Idiots hanging around in the lobby you're all drinking and pissing around he goes go pay for the hotel and He pulls out this big wad of cash and everyone's like what the hell but also wondering what's in this basket He gets to his room and opens up the basket and starts feeding whatever's in there all these hamburgers here Then Dwayne starts looking through all these papers and then looking at names in the phone book then he shows up at Seracado Dwayne goes to this Dr. Needleman's office. Of course. It's needle Starts chatting to the receptionist Sharon and they started getting pretty chummy. She's hitting on him It's the hair that must be the long locks. Yeah, finally gets in to see Dr. Needleman and he's some bum His office is a fucking mess It's like who would go to this guy put down that thing or holding tell me what's wrong with you Well, I got this pain in my chest. He's like well take off your shirt He takes off a shirt and reveals this big scar on the side of his body Then later in the evening it shows this Dr. Needleman calling this other doctor or you're saying well Dwayne was here Yeah, and also this other doctor doctor lift lander has been killed. She doesn't give a shit She just brushes him off so we know that somehow these doctors are all connected that same night Dwayne comes back to the doctor's office with that basket You just see him kind of like tip it over and whatever's in there it comes out And Then goes to the doctor's office and kills that stupid dr. Needleman Finally get a glimpse of what this thing is after it just tears dr. Needleman to shreds Goddamn ribbons you kind of see him for a brief second before he goes into the shadows It's this weird creature. Yeah So lucky Dwayne gets to go on a date with Sharon whatever is in that basket He gets him a TV to keep him company while he's away He puts the TV down turns it on then you see this arm come out and grab the knob and the knob comes Can change the challenge stuck watching that static On his date and they're hitting it off and they kind of start kissing whatever comes out of this basket Just starts to fucking lose it He's like throwing the TV around throwing shit on to the TV. He's all walking around The room and shit going nuts the people in the fucking hotel are wondering like what the fuck is going on It sounds like a wild animal is loose in the room the shitty clerk guy in the front He all lifts that swing encounter and him and his body's there to go upstairs like what the fuck everybody's crowding around And they go into the room and they see it is turned upside down One of the guys sees a lot of cash on the floor and like the landlord guys like alright Everybody out get to your own rooms get the hell out of here guy comes back to the room He goes to snatch the money, but his curiosity gets the better of him. He opens the lid Just right at his face Clamps on and he starts going around the room. He just kind of goes back into his own apartment They go to the guy's room and it's just a blood bath We then see Dwayne and one of the tenants Casey drinking at this local bar Dwayne starts to tell her What is in the basket and his whole story right guess he got drunk enough we start to loosen his tongue a little bit Yeah, and he's even Casey's like it's not so funny anymore Dwayne turns out that Dwayne and his brother Belial are conjoined twins and They actually killed their mother during childbirth and the dad is like he's upset But he doesn't want them to survive like this is an abomination as a creature You know he just wants to let them die But their aunt actually kind of pushes for them to live track down doctors to try and separate them because One is not so normal as to say hunting down like these seedy Back lane cut a bucket black market doctors do the operation when they're doing it you hear all those squishing sounds Those cutting and everything what they do with poor Belial they just throw them in the garbage They wrap them in a bag and just toss them out Dwayne and Belial have a psychic link Wayne gets up and actually finds Belial outside and he picks him up And he nurses them back to health and then the aunt kind of takes them under her wing So now Dwayne and Belial are out for revenge basically getting back at the doctors who separated them And that's where we're gonna end the plot so if you want to see what happens with the cast and characters of this movie Keep watching 1982's basket case. Did you used to have basket case on VHS? Yeah, but I was jumped for the day I bought it from the flea market. You remember? Yeah vaguely Can't believe we found basket case at that flea market Justin Justin What the hell you think you're doing? heading home after VHS hunting Heading to Winnipeg Winnipeg? You ain't never gonna get to Winnipeg. Well, why not? This path don't go anywhere near Winnipeg You done taking the wrong turn Well, if excuse me gentlemen, I got quite the journey ahead of me. Hold it. You ain't going no damn where Hold this tape all over these damn woods Now listen, what is it that you require of me? We require that you get your goddamn ass up in them woods Now just hold on a minute Okay, right be careful about that whipping you have in your hand there shut up now. Let's see you just open that tape Plastic just take it right off that clam shell take them off Get that power on load boy Let's hear you load Do better than that loaded boy What are we gonna do with them You're gonna do some rewinding for me boy, and you're gonna rewind it good So the first thing we have to see about basket case is for a low-budget be slightly campy horror movie It is amazing. It's like better than most fucking like big-budget Hollywood films Yeah, they're like twice as long as far as like nailing all the essentials every filmmaker Should watch basket case before they make a single fucking See how they did it on such a low-budget and did it right? Yeah And it's very typical of a lot of Frank Hennelotters movies where it's concise and to the point really nails Everything in an hour and a half the lion the monster himself. Yeah, he is not creepy He is fucking scary in this movie Yeah, and for the kind of movie that it is it's like this low-budget sort of comedy horror Yeah, he is scary the sounds that he makes to any when he's freaking out Half of it is the sound. Oh, yeah Yeah, and the look his black eyes and he's all gray Yeah, and his fucking teeth and CGI could never come close to duplicating that No, no like if this movie was done with CGI it would not be scary No, it'd be kind of a little on the goofy side I think because because the fact that blile is real it's a real thing that's there With the actors on film makes it scary this thing you can fucking touch it It's just a stupid puppet, you know as silly as silly as blile looks He's just as scary Say what you will about the way they used to do things in the old days But the stop motion animation in this is great, and he's just a little puppet Yeah, the simplicity of that simplicity of just having a puppet makes it work so much better Like just for example like when blile attacks somebody you they just put this thing on the person and they run around Yeah, they sort of hold it on that simple, but it's also 10 times more effective than shitty CGI. Yeah. Yeah CGI just looks like CGI doesn't resonate in your mind these types of facts don't get dated Yeah, they're kind of stand the test of time blile stands the test of time I think it's great that Frank Hennelotter in the stupid low-budget horror comedy kind of created like Classic movie monster lights right bliles fucking classic man The characters all the supporting cast around Dwayne and blile are Amazing in this movie feed this whole movie. Yeah, they feed the comedic aspect of it, too Right just everything is drawn from them Dwayne himself is actually really good normal brother He's like one of the more normal characters in this movie, which is kind of funny, you know Everyone's kind of got these weird Quarks and pretty outlandish characters, and he's like the normal person Yeah, all the doctors are really memorable have their quirks their names their names are memorable It's all very smart stuff. Yeah, it's all very smart Intelligent witty writing. Yeah, and the comedy is all intelligent and witty and in the right places Yeah, it doesn't get in the way of anything and intentional. It's then when the humor is there It's supposed to be funny as opposed to like you're laughing at it because it's bad No, you're not laughing at it because it's tacky. You're laughing at it because they made a smart joke That's right, you know the pacing at the suspense and the structure of this movie is kind of what makes it perfection In my eyes because it's structured and paced perfectly Yeah, like you have the flashback that could have easily been put in the beginning of the movie But no they put it in the middle which is the perfect place to put it because that builds suspense for yeah for what? Belial is like you said that you don't see him for most the movie to see this hand in the basket You see shadows and the way that they tease you throughout the movie as to what the fuck is in this basket Yeah, perfect, and then when he tells a story again, it's at the perfect place You're never bored with this movie either, right? It and it does have its ups and downs But when it goes up, it's like the horror and the suspense atmosphere of it when it comes back down It's the character building and you get to know more about Dwayne and the supporting cast and then also like the kind of the little world around yeah, right? Yeah, and yeah, and that's what exactly like you said the world building in this movie is great Yeah, it does kind of even though it takes place in this huge city New York it feels like it's a Much smaller thing because it's all kind of mostly in the hotel that's right Yeah, kind of really feels like it's it's a little small town Yeah, even though it's in New York. It's actually really smart how he did that Yeah, the hotel is a great setting it is all the settings in this movie are great because they're all Seedy and fucking dirty The doctor's office is like who would go there who'd want to go to this place typical Frank Hennelotter He loves his Disgusting seedy settings these types of settings lend themselves to low-budget horror so well It just suits the whole look of it Yeah, the dark look that film grainy low-budget look and seedy settings is like a marriage made in heaven It's a lot of tight shots in this movie too So you get more of an intimate feeling with the cast and characters right and maybe that makes it a lot more Relatable to and even the other settings like the flashback that looks like that Dwayne and Blile were brought up in this like kind of a rich house even that seems Dark and kind of disturbing because it's always dark and shadowy and you only see what he wants you to see too I he's not showing any extra shots or huge shots of the mansion stuff I just follows the characters along the way it's lit to is very much like that It's lit so you only see what the director wants you to see everything else. This is black The sound design for this movie is awesome. It goes hand-in-hand with the visuals right all of the sounds that Belial makes But not just that it's all It's all of the surrounding shit too like you hear the basket creaking a lot You hear a lot of footsteps you hear the breathing of Belial You hear the surgery the all the squishing and the crunching and and all the outside sounds too of the city And stuff like that really helps suck you into This world that the Frank Hennelotter is built for us and the subject matter in this movie You know for a silly campy horror comedy says a lot the Frank Hennelotter has a lot to say in his movies You could tell a lot of his movies this movie Brain damage Frankenhooker they all kind of deal with this Codependency people have you know this one. It's Belial and Dwayne kind of can't live without each other. Yeah, brain damage It's Elmer and whatever his host is, you know, it's codependency Frankenhooker needs to build himself a wife because he needs that companionship. It's always about Companionship and relying on somebody else and then having to lose that person. Yeah, you know Yeah, and in this case it's like a lot to do with like family as much as he loves his brother and wants to be with him and help Him it's also ruining his life. Yeah, it was ruining his love life He can't be with his girlfriend because bliles jealous that happens a lot like people get so obsessed with their family and need to Make their family happy, but then they're miserable. Yeah, you know, I think it has a lot to do with that Yeah, you ruin your own life trying to make somebody else happy. Yeah, and that's kind of think what this movie is about You do feel a lot for Belial. He's the killer in this movie, but you kind of know why yeah And so you can you can really sympathize with their direction. Yeah, he was thrown in the fucking garbage Yeah, like no wonder he's pissed off Exactly and then Dwayne obviously with the psychic link. Yeah, they care about each other and the ending for this movie is Like kind of sad and tragic you're kind of like oh man like it's almost like a Shakespearean tragedy the way it ends like that's how good this movie is It's tragic, but it's fitting when their mission is done Where else did they go from here? Right? I think I don't think there's anywhere else So if you haven't seen the ask a case Like put it in the top of your fucking list because it is like the perfect low budget or movie. It does everything Perfect, and it's extremely effective. So until next time Keep drinking