Baskin *** (2015, Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu) – Movie Review

Writer-director Can Evrenol makes his feature début, after eight short films, remaking his eighth short Baskin. He goes all out to shock in his Turkish horror movie story that follows a squad of unsuspecting cops who first bicker and argue and fight, then go through a trapdoor and stumble on a Black Mass in an abandoned building.

After a long, slow build-up with a lot of quite interesting and involving dialogue and character building à la Tarantino, the torture horror is extreme and stomach-churning, in the repellent manner of Eli Roth’s Hostel (2005), which is quite disgusting. But this is otherwise a well-done movie, with strong characters, striking dialogue, an eerie score and eye-catching, darkly flashy cinematography that makes it all quite stylish.

Mehmet Cerrahoglu carves his way into the memory as a new icon of fear – Baba, The Father. And Baskin makes its case as a must-see for fans of visceral body horror.

© Derek Winnert 2016 Movie Review

Check out more reviews on derekwinnert.com