Baskin

A surrealist, splatter-style Turkish horror film, Baskin dates from 2015 and was directed by Can Evrenol. Expanded from Evrenol's award-winning 2013 short of the same name, it is his first feature. In Turkey it opened on January 1, 2016 as Baskın: Karabasan. It runs 97 minutes and was mostly well received.

In the story, five police officers answer a call for help during a night patrol and end up at an abandoned, historic Ottoman police station. Without realizing it, they walk into Hell. Muharrem Bayrak and Görkem Kasal, who also appeared in the short, are in the cast of five officers along with Ergun Kuyucu, Fatih Dokgöz and Sabahattin Yakut. The villain, The Father, is played by first-time actor Mehmet Cerrahoğlu, whose striking looks come from the rare condition GAPO syndrome; he received positive reviews for the role.

Evrenol wrote the screenplay with Cem Özüduru. The film had its world premiere on September 11, 2015 in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival and won Best New Director at Fantastic Fest. One Turkish critic judged it, despite small script problems, to be a real horror film, made with blood and guts.