This timeless 20th-century drive-in
classic stars Kevin Van Hentenryck as a guy who checks into a
Times Square walkup hotel full of hookers and geeks with a picnic
basket under his arm. Inside the basket is something small,
pliable, deformed and disgusting that will soon be squeezing
people to death and digesting their body parts. It turns out to
be a sexually deviant Siamese twin, separated from its more
presentable brother in a graphic surgical procedure that didn't
quite work and caused some parental-hatred issues. Also starring
Terri Susan Smith as the breasty blonde receptionist who falls in
love with Van Hentenryck before discovering his brother likes her
more; Beverly Bonner as the nastiest hooker on 42nd Street; and
Robert Vogel as the intimidating hotel clerk. The debut film of
exploitation-movie buff Frank Henenlotter, a Greenwich Village
cult hero who would go on to make two sequels and the equally
macabre "Brain Damage."  |