"Fast-paced and utterly strange, Basket Case 2 veers way over the top early on with Ross' impassioned speeches while dressed in quasi-religious white gowns, surrounded by mutated inhabitants with faces resembling moons and tree stumps. The influence of Jerry Springer tabloid culture is unmistakable here and gives the film a nice twist; while the gore is kept to a surprising minimum... the barrage of outrageous make-up effects keeps viewers off balance from start to finish. Van Hentenryck gives an assured comic performance (even doubling as Belial's face in some shots this time out), and Henenlotter follows up his psychedelic Brain Damage by getting even more stylized and extreme with his lighting and camera angles." - Nathaniel Thompson, Mondo Digital