Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Páiric O'Corráin Baskin: Turkish horror film, 5 cops have a series of misadventures, culminating in them knocking someone down and driving into a river. They all survive but are on a call out to an old building with an odd reputation. In the building they find another cop, injured and raving. They descend to the basement and literally enter the Gates of Hell. People are being tortured, eaten alive, dismembered.Shades of Hellraiser. Not for the squeamish. 7/10.

Michael Ledo The films centers on Arda, a young policeman who lost his brother as a child. He is cared for by the police chief who he calls uncle. We have a long scene in the beginning with dialogue that sets things up for later in the film. While out, the group of cops get a call to go to a different part of the city they don't patrol. They have an accident, but manage to find their way to an old precinct headquarters used during the Ottoman age.About an hour into the film we discover they are in the Inferno, a plot spoiler given to us in the stock film description.From what I can find, Baskin means "raid." This has been called Turkey's "Hellrasier" and I would agree with that from the torture point of view. The hell master is creepy looking at there are a lot of frogs in the film, either to show us a plague of frogs or to promote "Hell Comes to Frogtown." While the horror and torture aspects were good, watching a Turkish film with English subtitles prevented me from getting to know the one dimensional characters, or caring.Guide: F-word, sex, nudity.

meddlecore This is a wild f*cking film. Holy.It starts off when a unit of police officers, from a rural area in Turkey, are called to back-up a fellow unit, who have responded to a call at an abandoned building from the Ottoman era...and disappeared.As they quickly find out, the build isn't quite as abandoned as it seems. A sadomasochistic cannibal sex cult has taken the place over.Or...it could all be in the head of the young officer, Baskin- who was chosen- from birth- to undergo a gnostic journey toward liberation.Which would make all the violence, explicit sex, torture and gore, a part of his katabasis. His journey into hell.In this sense, it's really quite similar to Ben Wheatley's low budget masterpiece A Field In England.A little comment on the last scene... (SPOILER) It does not put a damper on this theory, because, remember, his body disappears after being hit. This sort of suggests- via deduction- that one must essentially die, when in an otherworldly hell, to escape it, and return to a normative existence...hence why he wakes up in the water.However, this might also suggest that he does not actually achieve liberation, in a gnostic sense. And that he is truly living in hell- like a ghost- trapped in the endless cycle of repetition we just witnessed.This is also a possibility. And it would suck ass.With that being said, this film is chock full of tension, violence, sex, blood and gore. There are loads of moments that will make you cringe and even some that will make you jump.I really like how it is fashioned as a katabasis, and how they associated his gnostic journey into hell, with a deviant gnostic sex cult. And I also liked that final twist, which could lead the viewer to read the ending in two diametrically opposite ways From construction to casting, this film is pretty damn amazing. The cult leader is so badass. Baskin is pretty much the Turkish Ben Affleck. Acting is solid across the board. And the special effects are terrifyingly realistic.Making this is the kind of film that will give you nightmares.Definitely worth checking out.8 out of 10.

Leofwine_draca BASKIN is a much-lauded Turkish horror film about a squad of cops who face a literal descent into purgatory when they answer a call for help in an abandoned house. On arrival they venture into the subterranean depths to find themselves menaced by a psychotic father figure who controls an army of sub-humanoids. Have the cops entered into hell itself or are they merely at the behest of a very human psycho? Don't go looking for many answers in this rather ambiguous and low budget slice of film-making. It's a deliberately arty film which is short on answers and long on questions, playing with the narrative structure at times to mess up the viewer's head. Sadly, the sum is rather less than some of the more interesting parts, particularly as this is a straight gore fest with little wit or insight to it. The first hour is a dullish bore in which the viewer must endure the company of some particularly moronic and unlikeable characters, while the last half hours turns into torture porn with some good effects and a largely repellent tone. I found it brutish and predictable, and hardly worth the bother.