Basket Case fingerprintA , horror movie: but darkly funny, .
Good for friends night · teens · drop-in friendly
The tenant in room 7 is very small, very twisted, and very mad.
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Basket Case1982
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In the United States, Basket Case streams on AMC+, Shudder, Night Flight+, Fandor, and Screambox, and it is free with ads on Kanopy and Tubi TV. You can rent or buy it from Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, and Fandango At Home. It also streams in 9 other countries.
Mostly, it's well received, with a GoodWatch score of 69 (IMDb 6.2, Rotten Tomatoes 78%, and Metacritic 77). Critics rate it higher (78 out of 100) than audiences (60).
Yes: it's movie 1 of 3 in its series, followed by Basket Case 2 (1990).
Yes, it's frightening: scares are rated 9 of 10, and some images are gruesome (grotesque 9 of 10).
Now and then: the humor is mostly dark humor (7 of 10) and absurd humor (6 of 10).
TV Tropes lists 41 tropes for it, including Beast Man, Conjoined Twins, and Babies Ever After.
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