Cult 101: Basket Case 2 (1990)
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Director: Frank Henenlotter Run Time: 90 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1990
Starring: Annie Ross, Heather Rattray, Jason Evers, Kathryn Meisle, Kevin Van Hentenryck
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
Immediately after the events of Basket Case (1982), Duane and his heinously malformed brother Belial are “rescued” by a sweet old lady named Ruth. But the secrets in Ruth’s attic might be more than the brothers can handle. Basket Case 2 (1990) defies expectations to stand tall as a beautiful melding of John Waters’ Polyester, H.G. Lewis’ The Gruesome Twosome, and Tod Browning’s Freaks. In other words, director Frank Henenlotter delivers everything you could possibly want out of a sequel to a movie about a deformed monster who lives in a wicker basket and eats people’s faces for breakfast.
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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