O Segredo do Cesto (1982)

Curiosidades

• Orçamento: US$ 35 mil
• Filmado em: Nova Iorque

Basket Case is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Frank Henenlotter in his feature directorial debut. Produced by Edgar Ievins, the film stars Kevin Van Hentenryck as Duane Bradley, a young man who seeks vengeance on the doctors and nurses who performed an unwanted surgery that separated him from his deformed conjoined twin brother Belial, whom Duane hides in a large wicker basket.

Production

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter met producer Edgar Ievins during the production of the former's 1976 short film The Slash of the Knife, and the two eventually collaborated on an unrealized film project titled Ooze. Henenlotter recalled, "We tried to get the money for Ooze and couldn't, so I just wrote a film that could be made for far less money.

Basket Case was shot on 16 mm film during long weekends throughout 1981. It had a budget of about $35,000, financed by a small production team largely with its own rental money to enable the film to be realized. It was shot in part on Manhattan's 42nd Street, with the Hotel Broslin scenes shot in his friend Ugis Nigals' loft. The hotel's hallways and rooms were made by Hennenlotter, Ievins and others.

Henenlotter's friend Ilze Balodis recruited students from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to participate in the film's production, including Kevin Van Hentenryck, who was cast as Duane Bradley, and provided Belial's vocal effects in post-production. Van Hentenryck, actor Robert Vogel (who played the hotel manager), actress Diana Browne (who played Dr.

The special effects for Belial consist largely of a puppet in some scenes and stop motion in others. Henenlotter wore a latex glove to use as Belial's hand in scenes where it is seen attacking his victims, and a scene where Belial reaches out of his basket towards the television, directing said scene while stuffed inside the dresser.

The film's score was written and composed by Gus Russo, Harold "Clutch" Reiser, J. Keith Robinson, and Dave Maswick. The instruments used included an acoustic guitar, an electric Gibson guitar, a four-track tape deck, a Polymoog, an ARP String Ensemble, an Echoplex, a piano, a kazoo, a cello, chimes, a gong, a timpani, and vibraphones.

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