¡QUÉ HORROR! 2016
Candidate #6
BASKIN
(September 2015)
"You carry Hell with you at all times...”
Shot over 28 nights (there
were reportedly no day shots), Baskin
follows five police officers on a hallucinatory and harrowing journey as they
answer a call for backup, and things go sideways in the most “Oh, sh!t, we’re
screwed” horror film fashion.
Following the widespread acclaim for his original 11-minute short, Istanbul-born Can Evrenol expanded it to feature length, and has given us a deeply unsettling work that relies as much on tone and mood as it does on repulsive and gory imagery.
Following the widespread acclaim for his original 11-minute short, Istanbul-born Can Evrenol expanded it to feature length, and has given us a deeply unsettling work that relies as much on tone and mood as it does on repulsive and gory imagery.
Crediting
Eli Roth for the decision to expand to feature length (after seeing the short
at the Festival Internacional de Cinema
Fantàstic de Catalunya--aka Sitges--Roth reportedly asked if there was a
feature script version of it), Evrenol himself describes it as both “… a micro-budget
arthouse shocker” and “… a glamorous, surreal, and very dark movie.”
Whatever
it is, it’s disturbing and compelling and f*cked up, and eminently deserving of
some ¡Qué horror! love.
(Baskin OS courtesy of impawards.com.)
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