Basket Case (1982) – Best Horror Movie You Never Saw

Last Updated on August 19, 2021

A new episode of our Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series has arrived online, and this time we’re taking a look at a classic horror film that paid tribute to the grindhouse era, while being made in time to part of that era itself. The film we’re recommending in this episode is writer/director Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case (watch it HERE), released in 1982. Click Play on the video embedded above to learn all about it – and to hear the story of how legendary movie host Joe Bob Briggs helped Basket Case make its way out into the world!

Basket Case tells the story of

a grotesquely deformed conjoined twin who joins forces with his brother to stalk the physician who separated them at birth.

The film stars Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Robert Vogel, Diana Browne, Lloyd Pace, Bill Freeman, Joe Clarke, Ruth Neuman, Richard Pierce, and Sean McCabe. Basket Case was followed by two sequels, released in 1990 and 1991. Henenlotter, Hentenryck, and Bonner all returned for those.

Our Best Horror Movie You Never Saw series is

dedicated to highlighting horror films that, for one reason or another, don’t get as much love as we think they should. We know plenty of you horror hounds out there will have seen many of the movies we pick, but there will be plenty of you who have not.

This episode was Written by Cody Hamman, Narrated by Shawn Knippleberg, Edited by Juan Jimenez, Produced by Lance Vlcek, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Some previous episodes of the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw series can be seen below. To see more, and to check out some of our other shows, head over to the JoBlo Horror Videos YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there!