On one of his 80's Drive In Movie Reviews Joe Bob Briggs responded to a question about the best B-Movies of all time, and he named Basket Case and Reanimators. I was so shocked to read a respected film critic agree with me on my selection of two of the greatest films of all time. And here's why.
In the opening scene, beautifully shot from the angle of the nurse's ankles upwards, we can see the horror making something in the bushes move. We can also see the string pulling on the tree branch up and down -- horriffic! I knew right then I was going to love this movie. It had everything: Misunderstood youth, parents that don't understand, mutant siamese twin brother in a wicker basket, evil murderous doctors, revenge, true love and a hooker with a heart of gold. How could this movie miss!
On another level it is a psychological analysis of the conflict between the id and the ego and the importance of integrating the two and knowing that self love must precede love of another. But then again who needs that when you can go see a movie that will make your date squirm and grab on to you.
Warning, as good as this movie is, the successor Basketcase II is a stinker and hardly worth seeing unless you want a camp remake of Freaks.
In the opening scene, beautifully shot from the angle of the nurse's ankles upwards, we can see the horror making something in the bushes move. We can also see the string pulling on the tree branch up and down -- horriffic! I knew right then I was going to love this movie. It had everything: Misunderstood youth, parents that don't understand, mutant siamese twin brother in a wicker basket, evil murderous doctors, revenge, true love and a hooker with a heart of gold. How could this movie miss!
On another level it is a psychological analysis of the conflict between the id and the ego and the importance of integrating the two and knowing that self love must precede love of another. But then again who needs that when you can go see a movie that will make your date squirm and grab on to you.
Warning, as good as this movie is, the successor Basketcase II is a stinker and hardly worth seeing unless you want a camp remake of Freaks.