What tripped the wires in your head to name Duane Bradley’s brother in a wicker basket – Belial ?
29v, 194v, 195vįrank, this is a simple question that I’ve been very curious about for a long time, what is truly at the root of your choosing the name Belial for your most iconic monstrous personification of body horror in your classic film Basket Case from 1982.
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. A Blemmyae and other mythic oddities- To the left a Headless creature, face in their chest yet fixed with arms and legs who inhabit the earth.īook: Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo: With 25 Illustrations from a Fourteenth-century Manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (New York: The Orion Press, 1958)Written and illuminated in Paris, ca. He’s cute, he’s cuddly and fits really well in a wicker picnic basket for those special occasions. The Writer/Director who brought us the body as ‘Other.’ Conjoined brother Duane Bradley’s other half, Belial, somewhat like the mythic Blemmyae portrayed in Medieval paintings and etchings.
