Turkish horror film Baskin tells the story of five unsuspecting police officers who are working the graveyard shift in the middle of nowhere. Receiving a call about a disturbance in a small town, the five officers soon find themselves confronted by pure evil, falling quite literally into the dark-pit of hell when they investigate the disturbance in an old abandoned building. Can Everenol's Baskin is one of the horror films that is quite frankly hard to describe, a batshit insane, stylistic nightmare of a film that puts far more energy into atmosphere and mood than a cohesive story. The film is heavy on atmosphere, using an aggressive amount of stylish lighting, camera movements, and moody score, which assault the viewer early on, even when they really have no idea what there is to be frightened about. The problem with Baskin is quite frankly I had no idea what the hell was going on through most of its running time, which wouldn't be a problem if that was the intention, but given the film's narrative it sure seems like the intention was for it to be coherent. When the violence and death does come, Baskin is quite terrifying, offering a unique portrait of Hell and Evil in the form of 'The Father", a master of nightmares whose creepiness is hard to put into words. The creature design and world which Baskin is able to create is one of its best attributes, being like some demented mix of Jacob's Ladder and the hell sequences of Event Horizon, that don't hold back in offering a unique, demented brand of horror. Featuring some pretty fantastic gore and moody atmosphere, Baskin is quite the experience at times, but one would be hard-pressed to walk out of the theater remembering anything beyond the pure violence, death and gore it provides, due largely to a narrative that is simply convoluted and not all that interesting in the first place.
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