Baskin
Plot
Baskin begins.
It’s a night like any other, and a squad of five police officers, on night duty, is having dinner at a roadside diner.
We see them engaged in discussions about bets, stories, memories, and frustrations, even getting into a brief fistfight.
Then off they go on patrol, drunk on rivers of wine, joyfully singing in their van until an emergency call sends them to an old, decrepit station where they’ll be plunged into a never-ending nightmare.
Review
Evrenol, in his debut, clearly shows that he knows how to make a horror film.
Baskin is a slow, relentless, and ultimately fatal descent into darkness.
The five unlucky protagonists are presented to us as predestined victims from the very beginning, but the director takes the time to introduce them, even managing to make the viewer empathize with these tough policemen.
Within this hellish frame, our protagonists navigate dark rooms filled with lost souls, twisted bodies entangled with one another, and corpses wrapped in bags.
The descent into death and pain culminates in the basement, where they meet Baba, a ghostly sorcerer to whom the lost souls are devoted, offering themselves to his ritual.
Baskin is a modern horror film, brilliantly directed, with striking cinematography and an extremely engaging script.
The first half, almost Tarantino-esque, contrasts with a second part that is decidedly fierce, evil, and visually powerful, thanks to the charisma of Baba, a small villain with a powerful, almost divine aura.
In this symphony of pain and torture, we find knives digging into eye sockets, memories of hands emerging from doors, frogs invading as a sign of apocalypse, and entrails ripped from bellies.
Baskin is a film that no lover of extreme horror should miss.
Pan-Demonic Moment
During the height of the ritual, a sadistic and disgusting sexual encounter takes place between a tortured policeman and a masked creature.
