Duane who went a bit crazy in Basket Case 2 has been locked up in a mental hospital, but is released and get to go on a trip to the deep south with Granny Ruth and her family of freaks. There they stay at a house of an old friend to Ruth, and Belial's girlfriend has a bunch of babies. But things does unfortunately not stay happy for long, as a pair of deputy sheriffs kidnap the newborn babies. Not only that, but Duane is locked up in prison, and the police have found out that he and his brother are wanted fugitives. Eventually the sheriff wants to trade the babies for Belial, but the whole police force get more then they bargained for.
Here's the third and final movie in the campy Basket Case trilogy. It's not even close to being as good as the first cult classic film was, but is slightly better than the sequel. Why? It has a bit more gore and is a bit more gross, other than that, they are pretty much the same. That doesn't mean that the movie's bad though, it has a lot of things to offer if you're in the right mood, and is up for some very unserious and campy stuff.
Personally, I remember that I liked the two sequels first time I saw them, which was many years ago. But when watched them now, I had a hard time to stay interested, and the movies just felt too stupid. Still though, I absolutely love the first movie, and even if it was campy and had a lot of humour, it also had a lot of actual horror, brutal violence and gore, that made the balance really good. The two sequels suffers from the lack of violence and gore, and has way too much childish over-the-top humour in them. I have nothing against humour and I love horror comedies, it's just that the sequels are too much and too silly.
But basket case three actual had a bunch of pretty nasty scenes as well. There is, for instance, one scene where Belial goes berserk in the police station and slaughters three officers in a cool way. This third movie was also way more gross than the second one, and that was a good thing too. There seemed to be more new and inventive ideas when making this third installment as well, like Belial's babies were quite cool, and the viewer is introduced to a new major freak as well. Other than that, when talking about new ideas, was that Belial got some sort of robotic looking machine towards the end where he was placed in the middle of it, and it had arms and legs that he could control with sticks.
The acting is terrible, and I can't really say anything positive about it. But considering what type of movie this is, it's not the end of the world. It's supposed to be over-the-top, but still, the acting could've been a bit more believable. There's not too much gore, but the movie actually has a few cool killing scenes, so even if it could've had more of that type of stuff, the viewer still gets some.
This final movie in the Basket Case trilogy is a bit better than the second one, but of course not half as good as the original movie. Still, if you liked the original, it's worth to check out the second and third installments as well. Not great but kinda ok for what it is.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Basket Case III
MOVIE YEAR: 1992
DIRECTOR: Frank Henenlotter
WRITING CREDITS: Frank Henenlotter, Robert Martin
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
CAST: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Gil Roper, Annie Ross
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 90 min
RATING: 6/10
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