after the opening credit which be over a cool black and white drawing of belial where he look totally different to how he look in the actual film and basket case 2 pick up right where the original basket case ( 1982 ) leave off with duane bradley ( kevin van hentenryck and who return for this sequel ) and his deformed mutant siamese twin brother lying in time square in front of the broslin hotel have just fell from their room window . they be rush to hospital . the bizarre event be widely cover by the medium . in their mansion and hideaway for various freak and granny ruth smoeller ( annie ross ) and her granddaughter susan ( heather rattray ) watch the news broadcast and decide they should help duane and belial . ruth and susan find duane and belial in front of the hospital a they have just walk out more or less unchallenged . back at their mansion in new jersey ruth and susan take both duane and belial in and make them feel welcome and show them around and introduce them to the other assorted freak who reside there . meanwhile back in manhattan lou ( jason evers ) and the editor of a newspaper call the judge and jury be put pressure on one of his journalist name marcie elliott ( kathryn meisle ) to keep the bradley twin story go a it sell newspaper and suggest she visit an old lady they use to write load of story about and who they nickname dr. freak and real name ruth smoeller . together with her photographer arty ( matt mitler ) she go and see ruth and while there she also see duane and the potential for a really big story for herself . however and duane and belial and ruth and the rest of the freaky resident aren not go to let a snooping reporter expose them and plan to stop her and anyone else she have tell and by whatever mean necessary . write and direct by frank henenlotter who be also responsible for the original and and like the original i really do not think too much of it . the script be slightly well pace but at point in the film relegate duane and belial to mere cameo and i must confess i do like the end though and quite a cool sequence to end on . the acting be mostly awful again especially annie ross a granny ruth and she be embarrassingly bad to watch a she try to act motherly towards load of freak she keep in the attic and do not get me start on the scene where she deliver a rouse speech to the freak in her basement they get to via a secret elevator . duane have really age since the original that be make 8 year prior to this sequel and because the film be suppose to be set immediately after the event of the original and the way he look just felt wrong . the make up effect credit to gabe bartalos be and in my humble opinion terrible . the freaks themselves be just rubber or foam latex mask that be very silly look and have very little movement or expression . i just think they look like cheap joke shop mask and very poor . belial look totally different in this film too and and he still look ridiculous . there be very little gore or violence in it and and no nudity or sex . well human nudity or sex anyway and which bring me to one of the most head shakingly awful sequence i have ever have the misfortune to see . the sex scene between belial and his freaky girlfriend katy . a they grunt and moan they have sex against the sound of romantic piano music and the whole sequence be really embarrassing to watch and not sleazy and not disgust and not funny and not disturb just plain cringe inducingly bad film making by henenlotter and his crew . the film be a lot more professional look than the original and but maybe that the problem a it also far less entertaining and interesting . i be not a fan of the original but i will concede it have a certain something about it and this on the other hand doesn not . one to avoid i be afraid .