Hazel Motes

This looks both disgusting and amazing. In other words, it looks sick and sick.

Hazel Motes

ok so it wont let me post the embedded trailer. If anyone else wants to take a go at it.

youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9SfWmXQY3o

asianxcore

Releases on 3/26/16! VOD & a Limited Theatrical Release.

Really hope this screens somewhere in Northern California

RichC2

Brian T

Saw this at TIFF last September. With its unrelentingly grimy texture and, uhh, squishier moments, its certainly unique amongst contemporary Turkish films (really, how long has it been since that country produced horror cinema of note?), and Evrenol's ability to get it made in Turkey's current political and censorship climate is laudable, but man is it a slog, especially after the protagonists -- who are not particularly likeable by design and enjoy virtually no character development throughout the film -- find themselves in "hell", or whatever it's supposed to be, after a reasonably tense opening act, at which point the film becomes a patience-testing gauntlet of gory -- even transgressive -- but frustratingly repetitive weirdness that goes way beyond the point of being interesting or even having a point, all set to a drone-like synthesizer soundtrack that adds no emotion or enhancement to anything on screen. It's probably worth seeing once, especially for horror buffs, but I seriously doubt it will leave a mark or do anything for the local industry, and seems more like a calling card to show that Evrenol at least has enough derivative visual chops to get him out of his deteriorating country and into Hollywood B-horrors, at least for a while. Best I can say is to keep your expectations level -- or low -- and you may find it more impressive than I did.

EDIT: just watched the trailer. Looks like they worked with what they had, for sure, which is why there's gore, gore, gore and no suggestion whatsoever of a story (and the utterly predictable praise from sites like Bloody Disgusting and Shock Til You Drop, sigh). Incidentally, shots of "meat" being thrown on a grill occur ad nauseum during the opening diner sequence but are never really explained, nor is the all-around creepiness of the barely-glimpsed person cooking them. Much of the film is like that.

TomOpus

This movie was discussed on the horror pages of Facebook. I believe, those that have seen it, pretty much agree with Brian T. It actually played here last month during a film fest but I hadn't heard about Baskin. I was more interested in the remake of Cabin Fever. Hopefully it'll come back here because I would still like to check it out.