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Really Awful Movies: Ep 18 – Basket Case

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On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, Basket Case! 

Basket Case is a 1982 American horror-comedy-monster movie written and directed by Frank Henenlotter. It has two sequels, Basket Case 2 (1990) and Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991), both of which were directed by Henenlotter.

The film is definitely one of our absolute favorites, low budget, off-beat and gory. The film gained an audience in the 1980s due to the proliferation of VHS and has become a bona fide cult classic.

Kevin Van Hentenryck stars as Duane, an average, everyday dude who seeks vengeance for the unwanted surgery that separated him from his deformed conjoined twin brother, who was unceremoniously tossed in the trash.

Belial is left for dead but the grey misshapen lump of flesh is very much alive. Soon, it’s stuffed into a basket carrying case by its protective brother, Duane.

The duo make their way to the mean streets of New York City (42nd street, aka The Deuce) and take up residence in a very sleazy hotel. They then seek vengeance against doctors who performed the surgery and separated the inseparable “twins.”

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 10 – TerrorVision

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TerrorVision is an 1986 American science fiction horror comedy that’s achieved some notoriety in cult film circles.

The film is directed by Ted Nicolaou, produced and written by Albert and Charles Band and composed by Richard Band, all of whom would go on to later found and work with Full Moon Features in 1989.

This is a fun one on today’s episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast: A family’s new satellite television system starts receiving signals from another planet and picks up a giant, bloated alien with an appetite for garbage.

The movie was written and directed by the sound recording guy from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The subplot: the mother and father are swingers and place an ad in a newspaper to romance another couple and get more than they bargained for. The rebellious teen daughter has a boyfriend, OD, whose fashion sensibilities are Sunset Strip 80s metal through and through.

The young kid is an expert marksman and his grandpa is a gun-toting NRA type.

TerrorVision was released on DVD with The Video Dead double feature.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 4 – An interview with Lloyd Kaufman, founder of TROMA

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Lloyd Kaufman (born December 30, 1945) is a New York-born film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor and all around mensch.

With producer Michael Herz, “Uncle Lloyd” as he’s affectionately known, is the co-founder of the amazing Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including Terror Firmer, Class of Nuke ’em High, The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet. If you haven’t checked out any of these, you owe it to yourself to do so.

Lloyd Kaufman is the author of All I Needed To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger (with James Gunn), Make Your Own Damn Movie (with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga) and The Toxic Avenger: The Novel (with Adam Jahnke). He was kind enough to write the excellent foreword for our book, Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons.

On this episode Jeff K, co-host of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, got a chance to chat with Lloyd, a guy he’s known for quite a while. They cover quite a bit of bit of ground in this interview.

The Troma co-founder talks about the Sony scandal, Troma fans, the state of the movie, industry, Joey Ramone, Troma studios, tattoos, The Toxic Avenger and of course, soul-sucking devil-worshiping mega media conglomerates!!!