Director Can Evrenol‘s upcoming horror film Baskin received a new trailer from IFC Midnight, and although I haven’t checked this one out yet, the trailer makes it look pretty damn terrifying so naturally I’m pretty excited. The film revolves around a police squad who enters an abandoned building only to discover they enter what appears to be some sort of portal to hell, uncovering one grotesque horror after another.
The film stars Muharrem Bayrak, Gorkem Kasal, and Fatih Dokgöz and opens in limited release and on VOD platforms March 25th.
A five-man unit of cops on night patrol get more than they bargain for when they arrive at a creepy backwater town in the middle of nowhere after a call comes over the radio for backup. Entering a derelict building, the seasoned tough guys and their rookie junior, who’s still haunted by a traumatic childhood dream, do the one thing you should never do in this kind of movie: they split up. They soon realize they’ve stumbled into a monstrous charnel house and descend into an ever-more nightmarish netherworld where grotesque, mind-wrenching horrors await them at every turn. This is one Baskin (that’s “police raid” to you non-Turkish speakers) that isn’t going to end well. But wait! Things aren’t what they seem in this truly disturbing, outrageously gory, and increasingly surreal film whose unpredictable narrative pulls the carpet from under your feet and keeps you guessing right up to the final moment. A wildly original whatsit that reconfirms Turkey as the breakout national cinema of the moment.
