Henenlotter works overtime at proffering in-yer-face movie moments - and I'm sure that most first-time viewers would agree that he succeeds in his goal - but unlike the "serious" exploitation of so-called "inspirational" films, Basket Case makes no claim of even the slightest veneer of respectability. It's about a world where people can get bloodily rend into pieces by a creature that by all rights shouldn't even be able to make it across the room, let alone leap on their shoulders and start clawing at their face - and where brotherly love is repped by an over-the-top killing spree. A movie world, in other words: one that's arguably more honest in its artifice than the pretend Jerusalem of the year's Big Easter Hit. . .
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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