Baskin

Evrenol does have a talent for evoking the menace hanging around the edges of everyday life; under his lens, meat sizzling on a grill takes on an ominous quality...

Director Can Evrenol would obviously like to kickstart a gruesome horror tradition in Turkey...

...a film that seizes the attention even as some of its imagery turns the stomach.

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

The whole thing works in spite of its grisly kinks and enigmas, or perhaps because of them. Baskin is an odd duck.