It all starts out pretty uneventful but then takes a turn and another turn and even more to the point that you aren't sure what is happening now and what are flashbacks. You don't really get the hints to what's going on until the end and then it hits you. Literally. Not crazy about having to use subtitles as the movie is in Turkish but still kept me watching.

Other than the foreign perspective of a Turkish horror film, I found it completely unoriginal. I won't complain about watching a van scene where the occupants sing along to the radio for an entire song, because, Turks? Who knows. I was fortunate to be able to ff past the slow bits, like when we watch for well over a minute while the antagonist sloooowly enters and takes his seat. Would not recommend.

camera shots were interesting. the story is lacking a bit and leaves me asking about of whys. it went from kind of boring to kind of woah mid way. also, the "leader" was not terrifying in the least... appeared to be an over grown baby with calm demeanor and a padlock necklace. the film isn't scary but has disturbing images. and no one explained the heathen birthed rock taken up the spiral staircase. overall- lots of holes and not very scary.

Third time starting this, subtitles, finally got through it. Alot of dialogue to this, but things don't really get interesting until the last 30 minutes or so and by then it's too late. Not much nuance, reason, or rhyme to what is happening in this torture horror. Whatever they spent making this was too much.

This film is impressive. In a nutshell, it is about tuff-guy cops getting trapped in a nightmarish hellhole where they cannot perform, survive or "call for back-up". It's about people who think they have the world on a string, but are actually, themselves, dangling from a thread. It starts out spooky and ends completely bonkers. By the end it becomes clear that the eternal fears that haunt the mind from birth, despite the little victories, are coming back. A closed loop. The monster never really dies.

I really enjoyed, acting was great. Really awesome villain, you are forced to question what's actually going on and it's up to you really what you think the ends means. That's what makes this film interesting, I would recommend !

The vulgar and Gore take away from the overall horror but the villain whom resembles "hellraisers - pinhead" makes this film memorable.

This is a really beautiful atmospheric movie but I just hated it I'm sorry. For what it's worth, before I saw this, Hellraiser was probably my least favorite horror movie and I had similar feelings about this one. This may be a technically better movie than Hellraiser but I hated it a tiny bit more. So if you like Hellraiser and similar things you may like it. But I strongly didn't like it. It's just boring and dark and slow and nonsensical.

I wanted to like this movie but it just didn't go anywhere. There are a lot of boring dream scenes which I always hate and that's no different here. The last 1/3rd of the movie starts out great and had me thinking oh s**t what's going to happen next. Then what happened next just left me feeling let down. 3 stars because the set and makeup is phenomenal, if it weren't for that this movie would be 1 star material.

This film started off strong but the last third was just a complete let down. It had some interesting ideas going but instead everything ends in just an incoherent mess that makes little to no sense with nothing really being answered. This film suffers from the same affliction as many others in that it sacrifices substance for style. Mediocre at best. I guess I'd recommend to anyone who likes pomp and circumstance more than substance.

A group of Turkish police officers are called to a crime scene in a mansion that was once a police station. The men end up being held hostage and tortured by a satanic cult led by a dwarf demon. A love letter to the 80's horror flicks!

‘Baskin' is an Inventive and Terrifying Trip to Hell!

Well acted, tense and unflinching gory horror set within the realms of Turkish black magic folklore. Decently styled whilst nodding respectfully to body horror of bygone years this is an impressive directorial debut. The ambiguous nature of the questions left by the storytelling sits fine with me (how can I be sure of anything after being taken to hell and back!!) and the debut by Mehmet Cerrahoglu (Baba) is harrowing. Like it!

I consider myself a pretty big fan of horror movies and thrillers. At this point, I've drained the majority of all streaming services of their decent horror movie supply, so I thought I'd branch out. I searched all over Hulu and eventually found Baskin. I read the short description and my interest was piqued. I checked Rotten Tomatoes to see if it was worth the watch, and to my astonishment, this film had almost 80% - Certified Fresh. Whelp, here we are now. I literally made a Rotten Tomatoes account just to review this movie. Baskin is 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back, but here I am hoping my review will dissuade at least one other horror movie enthusiast from ever picking this trash up. The plot is terrible, the writing is terrible, the acting is mostly terrible with some okay moments. The place where this movie truly shines is in the makeup, but that's no way a few good makeup artists could ever save this steaming pile. Avoid this like the plague.

It works well as horror, but not so much as a film. I like the music by the way.

Weird bizarre fucked up gory nonsense. I still have no idea what was going on. Still, an effective horror.

Well, the final scene is one of the most impressive ones in horror ever and will burn into your memory. This movie should be 30 minutes shorter, though.

Foreign horror movies can be a special kind of awesome. Take, for example, Turkish writer/director Can Evrenol's [Housewife (2017)] debut feature-length foray into insanity, Baskin. Not only do you get to watch a fun horror movie, but you also get a 97 minute peek into what life is like in another culture; listen to another language, see the foods they eat, hear the jokes they tell, and get a feeling for what freaks them out. Apparently, in Turkey they're freaked out by animalistic cultists, weird demonic births, and frogs. Admittedly, I didn't quite get the frogs thing, but I was right there with them on the other two. Global understanding through shared "Oh, my God, what the hell is that?!" experiences. I did eight seconds' worth of research and determined that the Turkish word baskin in English means "a violent downwards blow" in certain contexts and "raid" or "incursion" in others and that certainly fits with the main storyline here. While the film deftly flits from past to present and back again, the main focus is on a squad of policemen. It's late at night and they've been enjoying a post-shift meal at a restaurant. Talkative Yavuz [Muharrem Bayrak] regales his mates with stories, second-in-command Apo [Fatih Dokgoz] gives him crap in a good-natured way, and the young rookie, Arda [Gorkem Kasal], takes it all in. Just happy to be there. Sharing in the camaraderie while maintaining a quiet distance is the boss, Remzi [Ergun Kuyucu; Taken 2 (2012)]. Once they're on their way home -- and after a great scene of the guys singing along with the radio -- Apo receives a call from HQ. Another unit is requesting backup in the nearby village of Inceagac. A couple of the officers have heard stories of the place. "Nasty stories" of odd shrines and the like. They don't get a chance to go into detail and the rest of the group brushes off the idea as nothing more than superstition until they arrive and find one of the officers from the unit who'd requested backup... incoherent, repeatedly banging his head against a wall, and sobbing. Things get less and less rosy from there. If you noticed that this synopsis was quicker than some, you've just hit on Baskinâ~s main weakness: style over substance. The whole thing reminded me of something you might have found in Clive Barker's early splatterpunk collection, Books of Blood. Fantastic idea, spot-on execution, just don't dig too deep because there's nothing under all the frogs and viscera. Honestly, though, that was the point of Barker's short story collections and I choose to believe that's the point of this film. In other words, who cares? Baskin is an artistic, goreful mindfuck, if you'll pardon my French. Evrenol's use of lighting and color -- especially for a new director -- ranks right up there with some of the best producers of horror and he throws in some interesting transitions between shots for good measure. The practical effects are well done to the point of occasionally being uncomfortable to watch and the actors do a great job with what they're given. Especially first-timer Mehmet Cerrahoglu who plays the lead cultist. Much like Michael Berryman of The Hills Have Eyes (1977) fame, Mehmet is able to combine his rare physical condition with good ol' fashioned intensity to wonderfully bring a very creepy character to life on the big screen. The pacing of Baskin does slow down in the third act. Literally. As in, at one point the viewer is subjected to a long segment in slow motion. I would have preferred a quicker pace, even though I suspect it was done on purpose. Overall, however, this movie is a stabby, writhing treat and an impressive showing as the director's first feature-length film. Turn the lights down low, make sure your subtitles are on, and settle in for some Turkish craziness. Robert Zilbauer https://scariesthings.com

Really well shot, with an oppressive atmosphere and some beautifully grotesque imagery. Builds to a delicious orgy of gore, twisting throughout, descending to a thought-provokingly hellish final scene. Exquisite, macabre and entertainingly extreme horror filmmaking.

OK story, great visuals