BASKIN (2015)

Turkey. Direction: Can Evrenol. Production: MO Film Produksiyon. Executive production: Mike Hostench, Müge Büyüktalaş, Todd Brown. Screenplay: Can Evrenol, Cem Özüduru, Oğulcan Eren Akay, Erçin Sadıkoğlu. Photography: Alp Korfali. Music: JF (Ulas Pakkan, Volkan Akaalp). Edition: Erkan Özekan. Cast: Görkem Kasal, Ergün Kuyucu, Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Sabahattin Yakut, Mehmet Fatih Dokgoz. Running time: 97 min

LANGUAGE: Turkish / SUBTITLES: Spanish, English

It's murky. It's fetid. It's slimy. It's mental. It's black. Dark. Unhealthy. It's Ottoman and it starts in a down-at-heel bar where a squad of poorly paid cops discuss the potential outcomes of the Spanish football pools. Their paths later cross with frog hunters and rotting beings in bandages, bloody, mutilated in an ancient police station such as can only be the sanctuary of Evil. The movie exploded in the face of spectators of Toronto's Midnight Madness section and is currently prompting retches among the respectable and critical acclaim at Sitges and Dresden. The director? Son of Istanbul, Filmmaking student in Kent, New York and LA.