Basket Case
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Year Released: 1982
Rating: 3.0
A spacey young man (Kevin Van Hentenryck) and his deformed Siamese twin brother Belial - hidden in a basket - get a filthy hotel room in New York City and carry on with their plot to kill the doctors that separated both of them (leaving the mutant part to die in a garbage bag); it's only when a woman comes between them that they can't get along. Despite the low, low budget, crudy effects and ridiculous overacting this is actually an oddly endearing tale about sibling rivalry and insecurity: poor Van Hentenryck just can't lose his virginity without his foam monster brother getting in the middle of things, tearing apart its brother's paramour. They both die together at the end - the only way to end their insane-o co-dependency - but that didn't stop Henenlotter from making two sequels.
