Baskin 2015

A private user reviewed Baskin (2015)

You'll Mull This One Over For A Bit

Bizarre. That pretty much sums up my thoughts about Baskin. After watching it, I wasn't quite sure what the hell I had just saw. However, after getting some time to sit on it, this is what I can come up with.

Five Turkish cops are on duty in a restaurant. They are all sharing stories, the mood is very light. That all changes when they get a call to back up a unit in a part of town. From there, things get weird. Really weird.

I guess you could say even in the first 35 minutes of Baskin, some of the direction and pacing was a little off. It just came across a little clunky. The latter 40 minutes or so is where the film really shines. Director Can Evrenol cranks up tension, spookiness and some legit splatter. You can see he has the chops for horror. My point is that you have to make a film from beginning to end and I wonder that since this was based off a short film, he ran out of material to make it to the finish line. Baskin is simply not a complete piece and that's why it is only an average movie.

Nate H. reviewed Baskin (2015)

Review from the comment

Watching Baskin is a little akin to watching someone else's really bad nightmare. It has that dreamlike aspect prevalent throughout where things happen with no explanation and when its all over, you will wonder just wtf happened. But that's ok. It doesn't all need to make sense. Just know its a really, really bad evening for five Turkish police officers responding to a distress call at an abandoned building. They will soon come into contact with a cult led by Baba, played by newcomer Mehmet Cerrahoglu with such a high level of casual sinister that you would swear he was a long tenured vet.