Basket Case Page #4

Synopsis: Charming country bumpkin Duane Bradley takes a motel room in New York with a basket and a backpack. In a flash back-series we learn the basket contains his surgically removed Siamese twin who is not only physically deformed so badly the doctors hesitated to consider him a 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, with the receptionist, and wants to start a positive life too - when the freak twin escapes, the scene is set for a grim finale.
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Director(s): Frank Henenlotter
Production: Analysis Releasing
 
IMDB:
6.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
NOT RATED
Year:
1982
91 min
1,676 Views


Come on, let me through!

Get out of the way!

In here!

In here!

Come on,

back up, please.

Back off!

Move back! Huh.

What the hell going on here?

Looks like a God damn

bomb hit this place!

Where is the kid?

He went out earlier today.

Well, no one came out of here,

I've been standing here all the time.

All the while it was being wrecked.

Someone's got to be in here!

Unless they climbed out the window,

because this just doesn't make any sense.

- These things couldn't get thrown around

by themselves... - Come on, out, out.

I heard them screaming, they couldn't

have gotten out without me seeing them.

I mean, I was the first one here and

I've been leaning right against the door

and no one came out.

Which means they're still in

here. Somewhere in here.

Well, whoever was in

here, he ain't here now.

But that's impossible!

- Oh really. You see anybody?

- There is something wrong in here.

- I know there is something!

- Come on. Donovan! Donovan!

Come on Donovan! Come on.

Let's go! Break it up.

I don't want anybody

congregating around the hallway.

Come on, get back to your room.

There's nothing here to see any more.

Come on! Go back to your rooms!

Come on, move it!

Come on O'Donovan.

No, I'm going to my room.

I'm going to lie down for a while.

All right, everybody!

Come on, break it up!

Get out of here, let's go. Come on, guys.

Back to your room. Please, let's go.

Nothing happened.

Nothing happened.

Look, if this happens again...

I don't know.

What do I know?

I only rent the place. Why

should anybody tell me anything?

I don't know nothing. Why should

I know everything? No reason for it.

Duane, are you all right?

Move it!

Got to get back.

Duane, wait!

Duane!

Down here! Please hurry.

I don't know what's going on!

Oh, God!

Alright, clear the lobby.

Come on.

- Come on, Marlin, outside. Let's go!

- What happened?

Someone killed O'Donovan

and ripped him to pieces.

- They just carried him away.

- But the culprit was scaring everyone.

- You can't come in here!

- But I only want...

Get out of here!

- You heard what they said?

He killed O'Donovan! - Who?

I don't want him kill you!

Thanks. You've been very helpful.

We'll probably have more questions...

Would you hold it a minute?

- Do you live here?

- Yes

- What's your name?

- Duane Bradley.

- How long you been out, Duane?

- Since this morning.

- Do you have pets? Any animals in there?

- No, nothing. Why?

Oh, one of your neighbors,

a Mr Brian Mickey O'Donovan

was murdered a few hours ago.

And we're just questioning

everybody in the building.

- Mind if we come in?

- No.

Duane, right before the murder,

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Frank Henenlotter

Frank Henenlotter (born August 29, 1950 in New York City), is an American screenwriter, film director and film historian. He is known primarily for his horror comedies, though he would prefer to be classified as an "exploitation" filmmaker (rather than horror). "I never felt that I made ‘horror films’, he has said. "I always felt that I made exploitation films. Exploitation films have an attitude more than anything – an attitude that you don’t find with mainstream Hollywood productions. They’re a little ruder, a little raunchier, they deal with material people don’t usually touch on, whether it’s sex or drugs or rock and roll." more…

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