Last week I treated you all to my opinions on Brain Damage. In the spirit of continuity and my own lack of an imagination, I have decided to tackle an earlier work by the director Frank Henenlotter. Much like it’s spiritual successor Brain Damage, Basket Case charts the adventures of a young man gadding about town with a mysterious and disgusting companion. The gentleman’s name is Dwayne and the companion in question is his monstrously deformed brother Belial. Belial and Dwayne are more than just brothers, they’re siamese twins who were brutally separated against either of their wishes. Despite his monstrous form, Dwayne loves his twin brother dearly. A combination of this fraternal loyalty and his own isolated childhood causes Dwayne to set out with his brother stashed in the titular basket on a quest for revenge.

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Every great piece of art carries a message. With Surf Nazis Must Die that message is very simple, if your post-apocalyptic beach community is overrun by neo nazi surfers then a berieved elderly woman will sort things out. Personally it’s not a solution I would have thought up but nevertheless it’s a solution. You’re probably waiting for me to make a reference to it being the ‘final’ solution. If that’s what you’re looking for then go look at some other site, Nerdfit is way too classy for that sort of thing.

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