Basket Case 3: The Progeny
by Frank Henenlotter
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Actor: Annie Ross, Dan Biggers, Gil Roper, Jim O'Doherty, Kevin Van HentenryckDirector: Frank Henenlotter
Cinematographer: Robert Paone
Writer: Frank Henenlotter
Editor: Greg Sheldon
Producer: Edgar Ievins
Producer: James Glickenhaus
Writer: Robert Martin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Basket Case 3: The Progeny
Movie Review: The Most Over-The-Top Of The Series
Summary: 5 Stars
Defying description even more than the first two, "Basket Case 3: The Progeny" takes the series further into the outrageous and surreal than ever before. Now pretty much a full-fledged horror comedy but not only one of the rare examples of that form that works very well, but of a whole different nature than most of its peers at a fundamental level. NOT a spoof or light, the horror elements are stronger, more fearsome and more graphic than most 'straight' horror movies, and the elements of harrowing tragedy that dominated the original Basket Case are still in place, but so are elements of sexiness, cute appeal, insane action and over-the-top strange hilarity, including an 'armored Belial' scene that makes "Evil Dead 2" and even "Gremlins 2" seem as intently somber as "The Sixth Sense". There is probably no way all these differnt elements should come together as well as they do, or that it should be able to do it and stay in tune with more 'fully dark' original; it should come off as much of a misfire as "Jason X" but somehow doesn't - it's the only movie to fly on all these radically different tracks at the same time and succeed, and brings the "Basket Case" trilogy to a victorious conclusion.
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