Review of Basket Case

Basket Case (1982)
1/10
Indescribably bad
17 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This young man lugs around a hamper which turns out to have his homicidal (separated) conjoined twin in it. Said twin commits multiple murders, very bloodily.

The large number of reviews on IMDb tend to acknowledge that this film is poorly made trash, but then praise it highly for having some originality (fair enough) and a lot of blood.

Neither of these is sufficient, in my view, to make up for a bad script, worse acting by the unknown cast, and a monster which manages to be hilariously unconvincing, appallingly badly constructed (necessarily, given a budget which appears to be not enough to cover the average week's shopping), and arguably incapable of life, let alone multiple homicides, in the anatomical form designed for the film.

A half decent idea and fountains of blood are insufficient to compensate for the sheer amateurishness of the production.
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