Baskin
IFC Midnight | Release Date: March 25, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonJul 12, 2016
The visuals are painstaking and horribly beautiful – shades of Hitchcock, Carpenter, even Spielberg – while the gore scenes are truly outrageous, knocking cheap imitators (hey, Nicolas Winding Refn, this is how it’s done) into a cocked hat. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsMar 25, 2016
Baskin does what many horror films try and fail to do: it makes you feel like you're a passive prisoner/spectator, watching as an especially vivid nightmare unfolds. Read full review
75
The Film StageJared MobarakMar 24, 2016
[Evrenol’s] success lies in the entertainment value this death-ravaged orgy supplies and it has plenty to go around. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeMar 24, 2016
Anyone deep enough into the genre to watch a movie like Baskin may find it, for all its bizarre and beautiful surrealistic imagery, oddly uninspiring. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesTom KeoghMar 31, 2016
As feverish and dark as this first feature by filmmaker Can Evrenol gets, there is a sense that something larger is at stake — an elusive explanation having to do with a recurring dream, twisted destiny and the bond of a promise. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineClayton DillardMar 21, 2016
The film mostly functions as a tour of familiar horror tropes for much of its running time. Read full review
60
EmpireKim NewmanJun 20, 2016
Grotesque rather than scary and severely underplotted – but certainly strong meat. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMar 31, 2016
Baskin won't be for everybody, but it's well made and imaginatively upsetting. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMar 24, 2016
This proudly derivative genre exercise will not be to every taste (or stomach), but the director, Can Evrenol, shows a certain knack for tension and for framing viscera in wide screen, even if his cutting is sometimes too quick. Read full review
60
Village VoiceBilge EbiriMar 22, 2016
On the evidence of the first half of Baskin alone, Evrenol seems to be a filmmaker who understands character, tension, and terror. Now all he needs is some follow-through. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis HarveyMar 24, 2016
Baskin becomes something of a monotonous dirge. Diverting to an extent, the film’s horrors aren’t shocking or distinctive enough, its surreal atmospherics not quite strong enough to cover for the sketchy script. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMar 24, 2016
Despite four credited screenwriters, including Evrenol, the mysteriously titled Baskin is thin on story, instead lurching in and out of a woozy dreamscape before arriving at its extended terror and torture set piece. Read full review
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