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

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 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

Sinister? Sadistic? Spine chilling? Check, check, check. This is a really nifty modern horror.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2016

This slowburn Turkish shocker suggests what might have happened if Once Upon a Time in Anatolia's philosophically inclined patrolmen had blundered into Eli Roth territory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2016

Hey, Nicolas Winding Refn: this is how it's done.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2016

Grotesque rather than scary and severely underplotted - but certainly strong meat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2016

Part art film slow burn and part extreme splatterfest, Baskin is best enjoyed as a movie that features the memorable image of a man gouging out someone's eyeball with a knife and then French-kissing the bloody socket.

| Apr 1, 2016

The pacing is slack and the splatter excessive, but this twisted cross-genre exercise should be red meat to gore-hounds.

| Mar 31, 2016

A torture-gore blowout that rises above pure nausea with an intriguing blur of possible realities.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2016

"Baskin" is a perfectly imbalanced mix of chilly atmosphere, heavy-handed symbolism, and familiar horror-movie tropes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 25, 2016

Tickling the mind even as it lurches the gut, "Baskin," a stylish, shape-shifting horror film from Turkey, pulls a bait-and-switch.

| Mar 24, 2016

Evrenol shoots all of this artfully, imbuing everything from a police van broken down by the side of a road to a man having his intestines slowly pulled out with a certain eerie beauty.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 24, 2016

The film mostly functions as a tour of familiar horror tropes for much of its running time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2016

Its initial promise dissipates in a muddle of repetitious phantasmagoria and too little narrative or character development.

| Mar 7, 2016

[Baskin] offers little in the way of narrative involvement or scares but doesn't stint on sustained, stylized revulsion.

| Mar 7, 2016

Baskin is the classic example of a film that fails because it can't support its carnage. I'm all for extreme blood and guts, but it needs to have purpose.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 7, 2016