Basket Case 2 (1990)

Basket Case 2 (1990)

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House of Freaks

Tagline(s):	Look who's back!
	What's in the basket NOW!
	We're gonna need a bigger basket!
	We were cut apart AND NOW...we're together again!
	This time he's not alone.
	Belial Is Back! And This Time He's Brought Along a Few Friends!
	Look who's back...

Nomination Year: 1998

SYNOPSIS: Duane and his deformed, claymation, homicidal, ex-Siamese-twin brother Belial (see Basket Case) escape from their hospital room and flee the authorities. They eventually discover this bizarre halfway house for monsters, run by a kindly old lady with a thing for rehabilitating freaks. There, both brothers find acceptance -- and love. Boy, we really wish they hadn't. Banned in Finland. The U.S. wasn't so lucky.

Bryan Cassidy

Smithee Award Nominations

Oblivious
Maybe He's an Orderly Taking His Laundry Home with Him Though under arrest, Duane escapes from the hospital with his blob of a deformed brother in a huge basket, and a dozen people fail to notice him. Even though his head is bandaged and he's limping along in a leg cast. One of those "I guess they had to escape or there'd be no movie" deals.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Stupidest-Looking Monster
Wackyland in the Attic Grandma Ruth shows Duane and Belial their new home and introduces them to the family of freaks in the attic. It was really hard to choose one; all the attic-dwellers are exceedingly lame: moon-head (think "Mac Tonite"), bumpy-face, big-teeth, and others. But if you had to finger only one, the giant mouth-on-legs that sings opera would win hands -- er, tongue-down.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Best One-Liner
"Hey, These Inkblots All Look Like Me!" At Grandma Ruth's Monster Therapy Clinic, Ruth has a session with Belial. Slowly and seriously, she says: "I understand your sadness. I understand your pain. But ripping the faces off people may not be in your best interest." I don't know how she kept a straight face.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Acting Appropriately Stupid
I Must've Accidentally Hit "Zoom" A nosy reporter has heard rumors of Ruth's freak farm and "sneaks" up to the attic for some pictures of the monsters. He pops his upper half up the trapdoor and snaps some photos. With each flash, it's clear (to us, anyway) the monsters are moving closer and closer toward him, but all he does is flash away with his camera until it's far too late.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Worst Picture

You See, Timmy, When One Latex Monster Puppet Loves Another Latex Monster Puppet Very Much...

Get out the shrimp fork before you watch this scene, folks, 'cause you won't be needing your eyes afterward. Belial does the nasty (and I do mean NASTY) with his female blob counterpart and unfortunately for sanity, nothing is left to the imagination, probably because human imagination can't begin to visualize anything close to the reality of seeing it. Moans, groans and (for lack of a better term here) "facial expressions" abound. As if that weren't bad enough, we cut to Duane and Susan in the bedroom, about to follow suit, when suddenly Susan's freakish nature is revealed: she is three years pregnant, and has a grotesque hand puppet living in her abdomen. So Duane does the only sensible thing and pushes her out the window (actually, she flies out, like the hero in Witchboard does at the end). All in all, only one word describes it: "EEEEWWWWWWW!!!"

Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Frank Henenlotter	Director of the Basket Case series and Frankenhooker, as well as Bad Biology.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Kevin Van Hentenryck	<Not Yet in Database>	Pretty much just the Basket Case guy...and the guy with the basket in Brain Damage.
Annie Ross	Granny Ruth	Plays the distinguished-looking old motherly type, usually. Had parts in Superman III, Short Cuts, and Throw Momma from the Train (not Momma).
Heather Rattray	Susan	Was Jenny Robinson in The Wilderness Family series.
Beverly Bonner	<Not Yet in Database>	Casey in the Basket Case and Frankenhooker franchises.
Judy Grafe	News Woman	Started out playing reporters in movies; ended up as Joyce Wrigley in TV's "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" franchise.
Leonard Jackson	Police Commissioner	Was Pa Harris in The Color Purple, Harry Cupper on "Shining Time Station," Archie in Black Vampire, and the big screen's titular Super Spook.
Brian Fitzpatrick	Cop	When he's not on daytime soaps, he seems to play lots of cops, on the big screen and small.
Jason Evers	Lou the Editor	AKA "Herb Evers," he was in The Brain That Would Not Die, Claws, and Basket Case 2, which would be his final role. Was in a LOT of '60s-through'80s TV.


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