D@bbe (Dabbe)

Dabbe is a Turkish horror film produced, directed, and written by Hasan Karacadağ, released on 10 February 2006. The director's first feature film, it is an adaptation of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 Japanese horror film Kairo and the first installment of the Dabbe film series. Its title refers to Dabbetü'l-arz, a creature mentioned in the Surah An-Naml of the Quran as a sign of the apocalypse, which the film reinterprets as a presence spreading through the internet.

The story opens with a mysterious wave of suicides that begins in the United States and spreads across the world. After a young man named Tarık dies horrifically in Izmir, his friends Cem, Sema, and Hande keep receiving emails filled with terrifying images from him even after his death, until dreams and reality begin to blur. Starring Ümit Acar, Ebru Aykaç, Kaan Girgin, and Serdar Özer, the film drew 539,381 viewers in Turkish cinemas.