Horror october #30
Oct. 30th, 2017 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beer_good_foamyWow, I'm almost there. And there were so many old favourites I meant to rewatch and didn't get around to...
Anyway, Baskin is... Turkish torture porn? Sort of? Though at least it feels like it owes more to Lucio Fulci and Clive Barker than to Eli Roth. A bunch of cops sitting around out-machoing one another respond to a call for backup, and find themselves at an old house that, best-case scenario, appears to house a cannibalistic murdercult. Worst-case scenario, they've just walked straight into hell itself.
Hell isn't a place. Everyone carries their hell with them at all times.
This movie gets very bloody and a bit confusing at times, with the characters snapping back and forth between different realities as they're pushed way beyond the brink. I wish it'd developed the ideas a bit more - aforementioned Mr Barker said a lot more with fewer words in Hellraiser, which is obviously an influence - and that reality-jumping gets a bit silly towards the end, but it's got a really nice style, the gore is neat and I do like the unrelenting go-straight-to-hell bleakness of it. It picks its plot and sinks its teeth into it until it crunches, gotta like that.
Anyway, Baskin is... Turkish torture porn? Sort of? Though at least it feels like it owes more to Lucio Fulci and Clive Barker than to Eli Roth. A bunch of cops sitting around out-machoing one another respond to a call for backup, and find themselves at an old house that, best-case scenario, appears to house a cannibalistic murdercult. Worst-case scenario, they've just walked straight into hell itself.
Hell isn't a place. Everyone carries their hell with them at all times.
This movie gets very bloody and a bit confusing at times, with the characters snapping back and forth between different realities as they're pushed way beyond the brink. I wish it'd developed the ideas a bit more - aforementioned Mr Barker said a lot more with fewer words in Hellraiser, which is obviously an influence - and that reality-jumping gets a bit silly towards the end, but it's got a really nice style, the gore is neat and I do like the unrelenting go-straight-to-hell bleakness of it. It picks its plot and sinks its teeth into it until it crunches, gotta like that.
