It’s funny how often a would-be director armed only with a deep and abiding love of low-budget pictures, a twisted sense of humor and a morbid imagination can, with no budget, almost no crew, a ...

Writer/director Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case has hit Blu-ray shelves for the first time. Amazing, huh? Released in 1982, the flick celebrates all the cheesiness and sleaze that we love about the ...

Did you know that Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong initially wrote love song lyrics for what would eventually become "Basket Case"? Luckily for him and us he eventually decided to keep the music but ...

The feature debut of director Frank Henenlotter (Brain Damage, Frankenhooker), 1982’s Basket Case is perhaps his most revered – a riotous and blood-spattered midnight movie experience, now ...

It sometimes infuriates me that the same movies keep getting re-released over and over every few years. If you’ve been a movie fan since the 1980’s, like I have, you have probably experienced the same ...

The name Frank Henenlotter should be familiar to fans of splatter horror. Though he has directed only a handful of features, nearly all of them are notable cult hits: Brain Damage (1988), ...

Basket Case is a 1982 American horror comedy film written and directed by Frank Henenlotter. It has two sequels, Basket Case 2 (1990) and Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991) by the same director. It is ...

Basket Case is a 1982 American horror comedy film written and directed by Frank Henenlotter. It has two sequels, Basket Case 2 (1990) and Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991) by the same director. It is ...