Baskin

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Baskin

Released Mar 25, 2016

1h 37m

Horror

Fantasy

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Policemen (Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu) face a night of horror in a subterranean labyrinth after answering a distress call.

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Critics Consensus

Baskin complements its gory thrills with heavy atmosphere and deliberate pacing, adding up to a horror outing that plays with the mind as enthusiastically as it ruins the appetite.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

4:3

Baskin at its heart both reveals and revels in the self-defeating, inescapable rituals of masculinity, and the visceral, inescapable horrors that can accompany them.

Rated: 9/10

Aug 25, 2018

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Ed Potton

Times (UK)

Stylishly mounted, well paced, with clever use of flashbacks, and written with panache.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 10, 2016

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

For all the mortified, mottled flesh and salacious shots of butcher's equipment, Baskin is just not very frightening.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 17, 2016

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Jason Shawhan

Nashville Scene

Can Evrenol's film would make for a great double feature with Tales From the Hood, if you were looking to center your sense of overwhelming horror in latex and goo on screen and not in real life flesh and blood.

Sep 10, 2021

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

Baskin's not for the squeamish - it has the courage of its malignant convictions, and it will maim, mark, and molest those last little pockets of good thoughts left inside of you, laugh slash squealing like a stuck pig the whole wee wee way home

Jul 2, 2021

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Emma Wolfe

SpookyAstronauts

It kind of goes with the fly-on-the-wall type setup, it has a lot of interesting camerawork.

Rated: 8/10

Apr 29, 2021

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Anthony H

Other than the foreign perspective of a Turkish horror film, I found it completely unoriginal. I won't complain about watching a van scene where the occupants sing along to the radio for an entire song, because, Turks? Who knows. I was fortunate to be able to ff past the slow bits, like when we watch for well over a minute while the antagonist sloooowly enters and takes his seat. Would not recommend.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/05/24

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Chelsea T

camera shots were interesting. the story is lacking a bit and leaves me asking about of whys. it went from kind of boring to kind of woah mid way. also, the "leader" was not terrifying in the least... appeared to be an over grown baby with calm demeanor and a padlock necklace. the film isn't scary but has disturbing images. and no one explained the heathen birthed rock taken up the spiral staircase. overall- lots of holes and not very scary.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/24

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Jeffrey P

Third time starting this, subtitles, finally got through it. Alot of dialogue to this, but things don't really get interesting until the last 30 minutes or so and by then it's too late. Not much nuance, reason, or rhyme to what is happening in this torture horror. Whatever they spent making this was too much.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/11/23

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Diamond W

This film is impressive. In a nutshell, it is about tuff-guy cops getting trapped in a nightmarish hellhole where they cannot perform, survive or "call for back-up". It's about people who think they have the world on a string, but are actually, themselves, dangling from a thread. It starts out spooky and ends completely bonkers. By the end it becomes clear that the eternal fears that haunt the mind from birth, despite the little victories, are coming back. A closed loop. The monster never really dies.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/08/23

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Alex C

I really enjoyed, acting was great. Really awesome villain, you are forced to question what's actually going on and it's up to you really what you think the ends means. That's what makes this film interesting, I would recommend !

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/15/23

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Tyler B

The vulgar and Gore take away from the overall horror but the villain whom resembles "hellraisers - pinhead" makes this film memorable.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/12/23

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Synopsis

Policemen (Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu) face a night of horror in a subterranean labyrinth after answering a distress call.

Director: Can Evrenol
Producer: Muge Buyuktalas
Screenwriter: Can Evrenol, Ercin Sadikoglu, Cem Ozuduru, Ogulcan Eren Akay
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Film Colony, Mo Film
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Original Language: Turkish
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 25, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 37m

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