Double Feature
Brain Damage
After altering the landscape of trash-horror history with Basket Case and Frankenhooker, the brilliant Frank Henenlotter unleashed Brain Damage, his ultimate Grimm’s Fairy Tale for perverted adults. This is a slimy, grimy, gore-soaked slice-of-NYC-life that follows a poor schmo who is addicted to a drug called Aylmer. But unlike heroin or cocaine, Aylmer is a mutant penis monster who needs to eat human brains in order survive. Brain Damage is hilarious, unsettling, and jam-packed with bad taste gags that would probably cause John Waters to reassess his life’s work. (American Genre Film Archive)
- Director
- Frank Henenlotter
- Writer
- Frank Henenlotter
- Starring
- Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, John Zacherle
- Year
- 1988
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 86 minutes
Basket Case
The tenant in room 715 is very small, very twisted, and very mad! Frank Henenlotter’s grotesque monster mash of gratuitous gore, macabre humor, New York attitude, and sleazy 42nd Street atmosphere is the perfect midnight movie, a gross out tale about the beauty & horrors of brotherly love. If you’ve never experienced the terror, we dare you to uncover the shocking secrets about what’s in the basket.
- Director
- Frank Henenlotter
- Writer
- Frank Henenlotter
- Starring
- Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner
- Year
- 1982
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 91 minutes