Cult 101: Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991)
- Sat, Jan 18
Director: Frank Henenlotter Run Time: 90 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1992
Starring: Annie Ross, Dan Biggers, Gil Roper, Jim O'Doherty, Kevin Van Hentenryck
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
He’s back. He’s bad. And he’s a dad! Belial, everyone’s favorite beast-in-a-basket, returns in the final film of the demented Basket Case trilogy from national treasure Frank Henenlotter.
After being separated again from his long-suffering twin Duane (Kevin Van Hentenryck), Belial discovers that he’s going to be a deformed daddy. Soon enough, Mrs. Belial delivers a litter of bouncing baby monsters. But the blessed event turns into a nightmarish ordeal when the police kidnap the little critters . . . and Belial is out for revenge.
About the filmmaker:
Born in New York City, Frank Henenlotter is a writer and director raised on low-budget grindhouse films. Best known for offbeat plots, lowbrow humor and excessive gore in exploitation films like his debut feature Basket Case, Brain Damage, Frankenhooker, and Bad Biology, Henenlotter was perfectly situated to begin filming a series of documentaries on the art of the genre, including Herschell Gordon Lewis – The Godfather of Gore, That’s Sexploitation!, and Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana, a chronicle of the first American artist to be convicted of obscenity which screened in competition at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.
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