Basket Case (1982)
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We're ringing in the Halloween season with a modern horror re-imagining of the classic monster movie template on this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street. Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they discuss Frank Henenlotter's b-movie debut Basket Case!
Jon insists this is an undeniable grindhouse masterpiece, and an unrecognized Universal Monster movie, but Kim is pretty sure it's just a sleazy creature-feature about how teenage boys are gross, and their wieners turn them into monsters. Tune in now to hear both sides of this ludicrous argument and discover what's in the basket... Join ussssss
Love horror? Prove it. Hit subscribe and drop us a 5-star review so the algorithm knows you're one of the cool creeps.
🕵️♀️ Solve The Mystery - Submit your prediction for this season's secret theme: nofspodcast.com/guessthetheme
👁️ The Neighbourhood Watch – Your official invitation to the strangest block in horror fandom: nofspodcast.com/thewatch
🦇 Join the Fiend Club – Bonus episodes, secret perks & the creepiest community on the internet: nofspodcast.com/fiendclub
🍸 Buy our Book – Cocktails from the Crypt; 60 cocktails inspired by your favorite horror films: nofspodcast.com/go
👻 Get Horror Merch: store.nofspodcast.com
🎃 More Horrors: nofspodcast.com/go
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:05.0 | The current time is 666. |
| 0:10.0 | Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife, but it's hell outside. |
| 0:17.0 | So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim. |
| 0:27.7 | Hello again, fiends, and welcome to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for The Casually Obsessed. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Kimmy. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm John. |
| 0:35.1 | And this week, we are talking about a underrated horror cult classic. |
| 0:41.8 | You can call it a cult classic if you want, but it is in the Museum of Modern Art, motherfuckers. |
| 0:47.5 | Basketcase from 1982. |
| 0:49.8 | The Museum of what? |
| 0:51.4 | Museum of Modern Art, the MoMA. |
| 0:53.1 | Why? |
| 0:53.9 | Because it fucking rocks. |
| 0:55.5 | That's why. |
| 0:56.4 | It's culturally important. |
| 0:59.2 | I wonder actually if it, I think it might be in the Museum of Modern Art for its cultural. |
| 1:05.4 | Documentation of New York in a very interesting period. |
| 1:08.1 | Exactly, yeah. |
| 1:08.8 | Because a lot of this is shot on location, on 42nd Street, in New York Times, and it is showing a version of New York that does not exist anymore. Oh, New York and its best as far as movies go. I mean, if you're a person who lived in New York, I'm sure you do not miss it. Now, I'm not a huge, like, Frank Hennon-Lodder. I don't want to to say fan i just don't know a whole ton about him but |
| 1:29.3 | i do really appreciate that all of his movies are set in that cd era of new york because you one |
| 1:35.7 | you don't often see it and two it just really goes with the scrappy upstartness of his films and i think think, now, is this one of his first movies? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.