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Baskin is the GREATEST HORROR FILM OF THE PAST DECADE

posted 8 years ago by wrongview
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A true horror masterpiece, unnerving, makes you feel as if you're endlessly trapped inside a garish nightmare from which you only seem to wake up, but it's just varying levels of conscious realities as if you are opening a matryoshka doll and then another and then another thinking you're escaping when in fact, you're only going ever deeper into the idea that Baskin rolls with to perfection:

"Hell isn't someplace you go, son... You carry Hell with you always, wherever you are."

If I had to describe it for someone who had never seen it, I'd say picture Clive Barker and Alejandro Jodorowsky teaming up to do a psychedelic horror film. It's that good. 

[–] Ghost_Of_Me 8 years ago

I was pumped for this film last year when I heard about it. Unfortunately it didint deliver for me. The first half was amazing. Really creepy and tense. Great dialogue and strange things happening. But after that it just went down hill for me. Its like the director ran out of ideas and just decided to add shock images instead of focusing on the most important part, the story.

I didnt really understand most of it. It seemed like a story of redemption but for what? Or maybe a cycle of birth and death? Dont really know since nothing was explained. And no, I dont need a story spoon fed to me but I need some sort of narrative to hold on to. They threw in some sub plots about the main cops parents and friend and the Boss promise to his uncle to take care of him. Also the driver who seemed to have mental issues, they didnt go into that anymore. But that was it. Nothing was flushed out.

I wish the second half was as good as the first, but it seemed to all come undone. A 5/10 for me unfortunately.

[–] BlackDog123 8 years ago

Excellent review, I agree completely! The violence and gore made me shudder at times, but it was mainly creepy visual after creepy visual without much to tie it together. I gave it a 5.5. I have heard that the short works much better but i'm not sure where to see it.

[–] conedust 8 years ago

While it's damn good, "the greatest horror film of the past decade" seems excessive. Two-thirds of the way through, I might have been inclined to agree, but the final act's reliance on an extended torture sequence was disappointing (though I did love Mehmet Cerrahoglu as the weird priest).

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[–] therefdotcom 8 years ago

it made me rather feel like i have watched a short story, that was mindlessly stretched into a full movie.

this is not even in the top 100 of horror films of the past decade. damn, it's not even in the top 250.

[–] TheElz 8 years ago

I agree with the comments of a film of two halves, 1st half is very atmospheric and interesting, then it's like the filmmaker, didn't know how to end it & went for torture porn & seemed totally unconnected to the first half of the film. Leaving you disappointed.

[–] alkimia4 8 years ago

It's more like Hellraiser meets Apocalypse Now. As it is, the director had the actor who plays Father watch those two films and A Nightmare On Elm Street to help him develop the character. He also said he modeled Father on Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now and I totally see it. Not a bad little film.

[–] BeOneOfUs 8 years ago

A true horror masterpiece

Oh calm down, you must know deep down that it is not a masterpiece of any genre lol.

[–] JohnnyCave 7 years ago

Once it entered "torture porn" territory (I find it to be the laziest form of horror) my enthusiasm for this film plummeted.
Everything before that was really good, great atmosphere and the restaurant scenes were the best. Not bad, could have been great, 6/10.

Who'd want to be men of the people when there's people like you?-A.M.

[–] AssetsonFire 7 years ago

I believe you 'cause you said it in Caps Lock.

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Just because I stumble down the road like a drunk, that doesn't mean it's the wrong one.