Today's B-movie for B-movie boys is a great cheap monster movie from the 1980s that even included some cock. We are going to talk about The Basket Case films, so if you don't like gruesome monster puppets, then be warned that we will show a picture of one. But remember: it's a puppet. It's not real. But the penis? VERY real! Let's talk about it.
Any fan of horror movies knows about Basket Case films. The plot of the original films is about twins who were conjoined at birth and are now separated to very different results. One looks like a regular guy and the other looks like a creature. The twin who is more "normal" looking keeps his deformed brother with him in a basket everywhere he goes which Basket Boy does not enjoy. The brothers decide to make it their mission - together and separately - to get revenge on the doctors who separated them. When the hot brother falls for a nurse, the other brother gets jealous and tries to get in between them.
1982's Basket Case stars Kevin Van Hentenryck as Duane Bradley who is the "normal" brother. The mutant brother is named Belial, by the way. Kevin goes shirtless in the movie, but he does A LOT more than that in a scene where he runs through the streets nude to save his new girlfriend from his brother. Watch his cock and balls jingle-jangle down the sidewalk.
The 1990's sequel is much more gruesome! The brothers fells from a building at the end of the first film, so this movie starts with them being rescued. They wind up leaving the hospital to hide at an old lady's house in order to avoid the media who are suddenly super interested in Belial. They learn that the old lady, Ruth, had rescued them from their fall and that she also takes care of similarly mutated creatures. Things do not go exactly as planned at Granny Ruth's house as the media seeks to expose all of the freaks that live there! The brothers join forces, with Duane even trying to sew Belial back to his body, to fight the media from exposing this haven for freakazoids.
Only two years later the third Basket Case film came to be, Basket Case 3: The Progeny. Oh, yes, there's a progeny. Duane and Belial have been detached AGAIN and Duane is treated for having a nervous breakdown. Sure, I guess sewing your mutated conjoined twin back to your body could be considered a nervous breakdown! He is recovering from his fragile state, but it's bad timing because he discovers that Belial is going to be a father. Ummmm, what? Anyway, Duane knows that that is going to be bad news and he does not think the world needs to see Belial's brood. He and the old lady from the second movie team up to find Belial and stop his kids from seeing the light of day. Kevin does his typical shirtless stint in the movie, but Jackson Faw appears in his leopard print panties that showcase a bulge that will make you feel animalistic.
The original film was directed by Frank Henenlotter with a $35,000 budget and its status as a cult classic is due mostly to the new-fangled invention at the time known as videotapes and VCRs. It was just one of many movies that would have previously been considered Midnight Movies at theaters around the country, but they now were able to be seen in living rooms everywhere due to late-night programming on cable and video stores carrying this kind of schlock. These films are certainly fun creature features and they never pretend to be anything other than exactly that.
That being said, that full frontal nude scene from the first film just can't be beat...but it can be beaten off to:
