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

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

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

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 29, 2021

A tense, brutal, expectation-defying supernatural nightmare.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 3, 2020

It's a tense film with scenes to make almost anyone uncomfortable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2020

Baskin is a literal walk through Hell and nightmare territory- an enjoyable one at that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2019

When [director Can Evrenol] paints a panorama of shabby roadside bars and policemen who behave like lords and masters, it's fascinating. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2019

It's one of the best representations of Hell since Hellbound: Hellraiser II.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2018

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.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 25, 2018

Baskin remains your run-of-the-mill torture porn with very little on the mind other than perpetuating reductive shock and awe. The best horror films allude to political or social subtext underneath the carnage, but that's entirely lacking here.

| Aug 23, 2018

The initial slow pace draws you in to the film rather than distancing you from the story. It is as if you are having a conversation with someone who is whispering, and you lean closer to hear better.

| Aug 20, 2018

Building up a steady and oppressive atmosphere, with grubby and disturbing sights, it does lose its edge towards the end, backing out when it should push itself over the cliff. There's still much to be interested in.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 4, 2018

It's the kind of arthouse horror that becomes a household name among genre fans. It's so shocking (at times) and so astoundingly well made that, if anything, I think it puts an exclamation stamp next to Can Evrenol's name as one of the futures of horror.

| Apr 7, 2017

Director/co-writer Can Evrenol's debut is short on plot but genuinely nightmarish, a mesmerising Hellraiser/Hostel mish-mash that's all Cenobites and no sense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2017

A film that is like a trip to hell. Even though its plot seems to deflate a bit, the final part becomes a catharsis of terror. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 26, 2016

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2016

Baskin never loses its genuine identity that makes it outstand on the billboard that needs more films like this. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2016

A good example of a short film used as a direct way to a film debut. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 23, 2016

Baskin resorts to abstraction argument to string together a series of grisly vignettes that are depleted in their own visual impact. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2016

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2016