Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Srakumsatic A-maz-ing

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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.

viabilityfer Visually this movie excels, the practical effects and makeup are memorable and definitely keep the movie interesting. The film is only around 90 minutes, but the pacing and build up to certain events is quite slow, so it seems to drag on. The characters are not too interesting, but they do have personality, though most of them are basic. There is a complexity built into the films story, not a lot is explained, and its really open to interpretation. This feels like if Mulholland Drive was crossed with a Rob Zombie movie, there is even a scene in a diner where a character tells another character about a terrifying dream he had, this definitely reminded me of Mulholland Drive. I wouldn't say it is a great movie, but it definitely has great individual scenes, the opening scene in particular was phenomenal, and throughout there's a hellish, surreal atmosphere. The soundtrack is great and really helps amplify the more intense scenes. It also features an electronic soundtrack, and being a fan of that sort of music, I enjoyed it. Again, its not a great movie, but its definitely an enjoyable horror flick that I would recommend and probably watch again.

bricslove Slasher gore fans who just want to watch red paint and egregious stuff might find this flick to be worthy of their time.If you are one of those horror fans who want more in a movie though, than a tired collage of old horror cinema that goes nowhere and if you cannot watch a movie where actions do not have motivations, failing to dwell on human nature, in other words if you are the sort of audience who doesn't do anything for the sake of just doing it, ignore this movie.To give you an idea: Carrie has reasons, Jigsaw has reasons, a vampire who will starve without blood has reasons. This movie is about people playing with eyeballs and uttering drivel hoping the gripping atmosphere in the movie will make them meaningful.Using a real-life flawed person to depict a villain is a new low for me.Positive sides: good michalengelo reference, yet very tired and doesn't sit well in the movie cause the symbolism is not about lucid dreaming and consciousness like this movie made it out to be. It could count as a Freudian symbolism, not with the hand of God though, lolz.Gripping atmosphere at times. But you will recognize the stolen ideas.

Dan Grant I first heard about this film after it appeared at TIFF in 2015. I never got around to seeing it but when I finally got the chance, it was a bit of a letdown. The director does some really good things here and it does have the look and feel of The Neon Demon in a way (if Refn dropped acid and remade Neon Demon, it might look like this film). There are five rather unsavoury and kind of morally bankrupt officers sitting around in a diner discussing stories of prostitution, bestiality and violent encounters, kind of like they were discussing what they had for dinner the night before. There's a level of humour to their stories and much of it is spoken about with complete equanimity. We definitely are not supposed to empathize with these men, in the least. So when the stuff starts and people's guts are torn out and eyeballs are skewered and throats slit, it's horrific to watch but it's not like these men were likable to begin with so seeing these things happen to them isn't really horrifying.Baskin has some really good set pieces and is directed and acted well. It looks good too. But it doesn't really explain itself all that well. As other reviewers have mentioned, I don't need everything spelled out for me, but none of this makes much sense. For those confused about the frogs, if you look up the significance of frogs, they symbolize a cleansing, or a rebirth. This is pretty much what the Father character was looking to do with these men. He wanted to cleanse them of their sins and their lust for power. So the frogs were a clever symbolic piece here.I, like most of you, have seen a ton of horror movies. I didn't find this one to be overly gory or hard to sit through. There is certainly some images of graphic torture but I've seen worse, much worse. I don't think this is any different than a litany of 70's and 80's horror. Hellraiser and Last House on the Left and Hostel were all worse, not mention films like Salo and Men Behind the Sun. This doesn't impugn the efforts here but it's just not the gore fest that I was lead to believe.Baskin is interesting and it has some good ideas, but ultimately it isn't scary at all and it has a bit of a messy script.6/10