Thoughts on Baskin (2014) (slight spoilers)

Basic synopsis is 5 Turkish cops are called as backup in the countryside.

First I will say this might be the most beautifully shot horror movie ever filmed. Now what’s in the screen is not but the composition and the lighting and the framing are all spectacular. I usually don’t think about it that much in movies usually but here it’s just excellent. Some shots look like paintings almost.

This movie is pitch black. There’s movies with more ducked up stuff (I’m looking at you The Saddness) and there’s definitely more nolhistic movies. But this movie does a great job of walking the line of showing you evil without making you feel bad. i.e. it’s a real movie.

I don’t like the very ending. Doesn’t quite make sense to me. Feels like kinda a frick yountonthe audience

I do feel like there’s some stuff lost in translation. Like these guys are the worst trained cops of all time to the point I wonder if they’re done sort of adjunct police rather than traditional police. Supposedly there’s a good YouTube video that goes into a lot of the cultural intricacies of the movie that most of us on here won’t appreciate.

This movie is often compared to the Void. I easily see why, but for some reason the void felt a bit more grindhouse.