Marco Castellini
•Belial and Duane are Siamese twins whose bodies are joined at the side. While Duane appears almost like a "normal" being, Belial is a sort of monstrous and shapeless excrescence. For this reason, a team of surgeons, with rather orthodox methods, decides to separate them, then throwing the poor Belial's body into a garbage bin. Duane, however, is attached to his brother and decides to save him. Together, they devise a terrible revenge to punish the doctors who operated on them, but things degenerate... Directed by the specialist of B movies and low-budget productions Frank Henenlotter, "Basket Case" has become a sort of cult movie that boasts a good following of fans and can even boast two sequels. Shot in 16mm with a really meager budget, Henenlotter's film manages to skillfully mix ironic-sarcastic elements with pure horror (the sequence of the "division" of the two brothers is unforgettable for all lovers of splatter), without failing to address dramatic topics such as modern society's rejection of diversity. A true gem of independent horror cinema, unfortunately very hard to find in Italy.
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