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Arrow Video has given director Frank Henenlotter’s 1982 cult classic Basket Case (watch it Here) a couple Blu-ray releases in recent years, and now the company has announced that they’re bringing the film to 4K Uhd for the first time! This release is for the US, the UK, and Canada, and the street date is April 29th. The pre-order link for the UK is Here and the pre-order link for the US and Canada is Here.

Basket Case has the following synopsis: Duane Bradley is a pretty ordinary guy. His formerly conjoined twin Belial, on the other hand, is a deformed, fleshy lump whom he carries around in a wicker basket. Arriving in the Big Apple and taking up a room at the seedy Hotel Broslin, the pair set about hunting down and butchering the surgeons responsible for their separation. But tensions flare up when Duane starts spending time with a pretty blonde secretary,...

Francesca Cappucci, who spent more than a decade as a popular entertainment and music reporter at Kabc-tv in Los Angeles, has died. She was 64.

Cappucci died March 30 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena after being diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic lung cancer in July, her older son, Ian Lyndon, told The Hollywood Reporter. She never smoked and “was an advocate for wellness and ran and exercised every day, that’s why [her illness] was such a shock,” he said.

Out of the blue, Quentin Tarantino named the glamorous Italian movie star wife of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton after her in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

Cappucci and the filmmaker never met, Ian said, and she was “blown away” when she and his brother, Will, saw the movie on the big screen for the first time. (The character was played by Chilean actress Lorenza Izzo.)

Cappucci covered show business for the ABC-owned station...

1982 - 91 mins. - Rated R

D: Frank Henenlotter

C: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Robert Vogel, Diana Browne 

A man carrying his deformed seamise twin in an oversized basket seeks revenge against the doctors who surgically separated them.

Odd, odd film and not in a good way. To Basket Case's credit, the film certainly commits to creating this sleazy environment filled with oddball characters, but beyond the film's sleazy proceedings, there isn't a single character to care about in sight. Yeah, the viewer knows that the two main characters were forced into a tragic circumstance in regards to the surgical procedure, but their isn't an ounce of sympathy towards either character and what they had to endure, because neither character is likable. Due to that, the revenge that they inflict upon their tormentors lacks satisfaction since we really don't care what happened to them in the first place.

Director Frank Henenloter discusses his horror cult classic Basket Case which arrives on Blu-ray September 27

Back in the early 1980s, filmmaker Frank Henenlotter wanted to make a horror film which he believed no one would really see, or want to see. Nearly three decades later, that movie Basket Case is hitting the shelves for the first time on Blu-ray starting September 27. This disturbing movie centers on a man (Kevin Van Hentenryck) who carries around a strange wicker basket which contains his mangled and mutated brother Belial. The brothers roam the streets of New York City, seeking vengeance against the doctors who separated the Siamese twins. I recently had the chance to speak with Frank Henenlotter over the phone about Basket Case, and here's what he had to say.

Can you talk a bit about where this crazy concept sprung from?

Frank Henenlotter: I used to make my own little amateur movies,...