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Not the best movie to eat a bowl of ramen during
this movie is officially my pick for worst movie to be stuck in
this movie had me in fight or flight for the last 30 minutes
for how upset the boys get for being called gay, they sure to threaten to fuck dudes a lot. and elephants. and chickens.
this movie is a lot like MANDY. Both have extreme gore (BASKIN easily wins the title of Nastiest) , both deal with violent and sexual cults, and both have a very stylised color pallet. MANDY however is a fairly calm and trippy movie you can relax during. this movie is a POV into actual hell that will have you peering through your fingers like a child. its a great haunted house style movie as well, constantly moving on to more and more rooms that get more and more disturbing. with its crazy amount of locations and even crazier creatures, this would make one hell of a horror game.
if you don't turn off all the lights, light a candle, and watch this movie on Halloween i will be personally offended.
nonononononononononononononononononno stopstopstopstopstopstop/10
RE-VIEW UPDATE: SEP 13TH, 2021
I feel like when I talked about this movie last time, i really never touched on a lot of its major character details and themes. i was so busy trying to figure out what the hell was happening i barely talked about why this movie was so effective. so if you want a spoiler free review of BASKIN, my original review will do just fine. but if want all of the nasty ass details, your in the right place.
a lot of horror movies have a way of story telling that pushes you to have certain feelings about it characters. usually, that means making certain characters highly exaggerated assholes so you care less when they die. on my first watch, this movie seemed to be doing just that. our main characters open the movie by talking about fucking animals, there distain towards trans women and objectification of women in general, and end there little chat by assaulting a restaurant cook's son. to this day, I cant tell if this is simply a cultural thing I don't understand, or if we are meant to dislike the characters right off the bat. in hindsight, i think the answer I'm looking for here is fairly simple. the director isn't trying to make you feel a certain way about his characters, they are just showing you the way these people are. yes they are a bit fucked up, but they have a real connection from working together for so long. just like us, there simply just human beings.
so your a bit more comfortable with this movies characters now right? great, now lets dive into the spooky nasty gory shit.
whatever your view on the cops might be, when you think of a cop you think of someone who is used to handling emergency's. when the police arrive, you expect them to be calm, get the situation under control, and help you get to safety. once upon a time i found myself in a justice studies classroom, and after realizing how much trauma and chaos the police have to deal with, i quickly dropped out. one of my professors told me shortly before I left that being a cop meant dealing with people on the wort day of there life, every day you come into work. long story short, you need to have a certain mental and psychical strength to be a cop.
so when I see a police officer laying on the ground crying alone in a dark room with no memory of how he got there, I'm immediately scared as shit. what helps that fear grow even stranger is the pure confusion of exactly what the fuck is going on. wait... weren't we just all in the van? where exactly are we? what happened to the last group of police officers? what exactly called us here in the first place? is any of this real? this movie is excellent at leaving plenty of unanswered questions, and the seemingly randomness of it all makes everything twice as impactful.
mis that with this movies surprisingly vibrant color pallet, amazing bass filled score, and plenty of surreal dream(?) sequences, you get one hell of a disturbing movie.
ew ew ew ew stop stop stop/10
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