Deadline: Turkish horror film Baskin will soon terrorize American movie fans thanks to IFC Midnight, which has acquired all U.S. rights following the pic’s TIFF 2015 premiere. From first time feature director Can Evrenol, Baskin tells the tale of five cops working the graveyard shift who get called to investigate a disturbance out in the middle of nowhere. Without backup, the policemen wind up in a labyrinthine ruin that conceals the blood soaked den of a terrifying cult, plunging them into a bloody world of violent madness.
AVClub: Even without first-time director Can Evrenol’s flair for gruesome visuals, Baskin would be an oddity. Few horror movies are being made in Turkey in general these days, and even fewer are independent productions like this one. And the film should succeed in getting Evrenol’s name out there among American horror fans perpetually searching for the newest and weirdest in international nightmare fuel. Beyond that, though, 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.
Deadline: Want to enjoy some insomnia? Turkish horror film Baskin, the feature debut of director Can Evrenol, looks like it’s going to keep people awake for hours after it ends. At least judging from the official Toronto International Film Festival trailer, some of the most disturbing one minute and thirty seconds you’re likely to have this year. The film follows five cops working the graveyard shift who get called out to the middle of nowhere to investigate a disturbance. Sans backup, the policemen end up in a labyrinthine ruin that conceals the blood soaked den of a group of terrifying cultists that plunges them into a bloody world of violent madness.
