Baskin

Director: Can EvrenolTurkey 201597 min.FSK 18
Ostentor CinemaSun. 13.04.202515:00
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That is what it is about

Five mega-macky policemen are called in at night as reinforcements for a raid in a remote, disreputable suburb of Istanbul. However, when they finally arrive at the derelict building that once housed a police station after an accident, it is no ordinary mission that awaits them. Instead, they enter a surreal limbo populated by the deformed followers of a brutal black magic cult - and begin a descent into hell ...

What you should know

"You shouldn't tell dreams at night." It's a good thing that rookie Arda disregards his own warning. Otherwise we would have missed out on surreal phantasmagorias like no other: With an unmistakably unique voice somewhere between Argento, Barker, Carpenter and Lynch, BASKIN serves up bizarre visions of hell that have never been seen before - highly aesthetic and berserkly bloody. Imbued with symbolism, sadistic, stylishly handmade, splattering and even gut-wrenching: much more than "just" a Turkish HELLRAISER.
Original title: Baskin
Rights holder: Capelight Pictures
Language: Turkish
Cast: Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Görkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu
Film festivals: Toronto International Film Festival, Fantasy Filmfest

Direction

Can Evrenol began his career with a whole series of short films. The last of these was called BASKIN and impressed Eli Roth so much in Sitges in 2013 that he pushed for a feature film adaptation. The result put Turkey, a country not previously known for modern horror, on the genre map in one fell swoop. It also earned Evrenol an award for best director at the Fantastic Fest in Austin and made him a hot candidate to direct the HELLRAISER remake.

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Can Evrenol

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