Regular visitors to Brutal as Hell will have noticed that we’ve got a bad case of retrospective fever at the moment; well, what can we say? 1982 in particular was obviously a hell of a year for renegade horror cinema, and we can’t let these milestone birthdays pass us by without celebrating them. It’s incredible really that, in such a short space of time, we get the releases of both The New York Ripper (which Marc has just written about) and, shortly afterwards, Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case: these are both films which have enjoyed ardent horror fandom ever since, and whilst they’re different in many ways, what we see in both films is a penchant for ramping it up, mixing the absurd with the grisly, whilst providing us with lurid time capsules of New York way back when, something which fans loved then and love now....
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