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Turkey, United States · 2015
1h 37m
Director Can Evrenol
Starring Muharrem Bayrak, Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Mehmet Fatih Dokgöz, Görkem Kasal
Genre Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
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In this surreal film, four unsuspecting cops make a shocking discovery that leads them to a horrific hellscape of suffering. After being called to investigate an abandoned building, they spend the night navigating a brutally nightmarish labyrinth of gore and supernatural violence.
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
This proudly derivative genre exercise will not be to every taste (or stomach), but the director, Can Evrenol, shows a certain knack for tension and for framing viscera in wide screen, even if his cutting is sometimes too quick.
On the evidence of the first half of Baskin alone, Evrenol seems to be a filmmaker who understands character, tension, and terror. Now all he needs is some follow-through.
Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
The film mostly functions as a tour of familiar horror tropes for much of its running time.
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
Despite four credited screenwriters, including Evrenol, the mysteriously titled Baskin is thin on story, instead lurching in and out of a woozy dreamscape before arriving at its extended terror and torture set piece.
Baskin becomes something of a monotonous dirge. Diverting to an extent, the film’s horrors aren’t shocking or distinctive enough, its surreal atmospherics not quite strong enough to cover for the sketchy script.
The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
[Evrenol’s] success lies in the entertainment value this death-ravaged orgy supplies and it has plenty to go around.
Anyone deep enough into the genre to watch a movie like Baskin may find it, for all its bizarre and beautiful surrealistic imagery, oddly uninspiring.
Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
Baskin won't be for everybody, but it's well made and imaginatively upsetting.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
Baskin does what many horror films try and fail to do: it makes you feel like you're a passive prisoner/spectator, watching as an especially vivid nightmare unfolds.
The Seattle Times by Tom Keogh
As feverish and dark as this first feature by filmmaker Can Evrenol gets, there is a sense that something larger is at stake — an elusive explanation having to do with a recurring dream, twisted destiny and the bond of a promise.
A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle.
An Unspeakable Horror. A Creative Genius. Captured For Eternity.
It was never meant to be opened.
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