Dabbe: The Possession (2013)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Pretty Good

Best movie of this year hands down!

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This movie is the best Turkish horror movie ever IMO. Even though It's not original in any way, not even for the Director Karacadağ himself, everything fits and flows perfectly in this movie. Every horror movie fan should watch this! And with horror, I mean HORROR which can make an adult-reasonable man to sh*t his pants.. (a friend of mine ;))

Man, how the spirit of found footage has been corrupted down through the years! That's why I feel so obliged to jump to 'Cin Çarpması's defense.Turkey is probably one of the last places on earth that I would have expected to release a film of this magic. 'Cin Çarpması gives the genre an "Extreme Makeover: Oriental Edition": Eastern mysticism, Djinns, Turkish voodoo, black magic spells and runes, mythical demonic energy, traditional charms, and who knows what else. Sublime!Quite different from the likes of Baskin, 'Cin Çarpması is rather accessible for an all-Western-non-Muslim like me. The catchy storytelling has more steam than a whirling dervish and is given tons of love and attention – something that Western horrors have seemingly forgotten about. In parts it feels like an Oriental telenovela, which in a weird way provides extra eerie realism.Obviously, the filmmakers shoot on limited budget. So what? These guys are passionate, and they have an eye for both disturbing visuals and beauty. Magic kicks in without warning, the fun never stops coming, from start to finish, and takes a wicked turn at the end.Probs to 'Cin Çarpması for putting balls on found footage. This is a trippy ride in every sense that gets better with each watch. Still unmatched in recent horror. If you have yet to see this, don't put it off any longer.

Hasan Karacadag uses only one formulaic approach in every D@bbe entry. The same core narrative is told and retold every time, implementing a very limited set of themes, plot devices, and even entire scenes with sporadic, little variations.Here is how it works. 1) A family member exhibits unusual behaviour. 2) Medicine fails to treat said member. 3) An exorcist is brought in. 4) A "code" is discovered, containing a letter or a number. Solving the code would reveal the most important piece of information, so it usually happens towards the very end of the narrative as a plot twist. 5) Black magic artifacts are discovered. 6) An inhabited house in an otherwise abandoned village provides hope for solution. So a visit is made, by night for some reason or another. 7) The trip to the village is found to be a trap. The real danger is back at home, though, masterminded by humans. 8) The force of nature prevails and everybody who tries to defy it dies. 9) The ending is left a bit open.The repeated scenes include: - The discovery of an amulet. - The riddance of Nazar talismans. - The mirrors evocation. - The exhumation of a large quantity of ritualistic material, such as animal parts and effigies, at the shock and disgust of family members. - Exorcist says he/she refers treatable cases to medical doctors, but not metaphysical cases. - Arguing with family over medical treatment. - The visit to the village. - The danger both in the village and at home. - Presentation of the director's favourite theory about WWW. - Humans are the transgressors. The metaphysical creatures are justifiably angry.NOW, what makes Cin Çarpmasi stand out, even though it uses all of these elements, is that it implements it organically and intelligently.1) Unlike the other entries where information and magical solutions are dumped on the audience by some unjustifiably omniscient supporting character, the characters here investigate and try to find the solution on their own while engaging us in the process. No illogical jumps or narrative gaps.2) The entire setting is in a displaced village and its surroundings, making the move between locations not only justifiable but necessary.3) Absolute minimum filling material such as cameras recording nothing happening for 2 minutes. Almost every scene is being used to serve the film.4) Unlike the other entries, the performance here is actually good. Even very good. Lead actors did a great job.This makes the film extremely compact despite its 2hrs running time. It is also worth mentioning that even though the film is using a pattern very similar to The Last Exorcism, it manages to achieve an identity of its own with a rich background story and more emphasis on the mystery.Recommended with no doubt.

I've been watching Mr. Hasan Karacadag's horror movies since the "d@bbe" movie has been made in 2005. Due to its story, the movie was seemed to be the pioneer of a very different sort of horror in Turkey. The most effective fact in that is the influences of Karacadag movies in usual. The classic and usual horror movie sense in the world was like what Hollywood used so far. But with his own created view and his own assertions about doomsday, Karacadag has made an influential change about horror movie clichés.That's what Hasan Karacadag's whole movies' main themes are about. He urges so odd arguments about Islamic metaphysical stuffs and his genuine theories about the omens of doomsday in Islam religion become very controversial claims every time he makes a new movie. His theory about the "dabbe" notion which's mostly used in his movies triggered so many discussions related to Islamic metaphysical assets mentioned in Quran. Due to the meaning of "dabbe" word he correlates the "dabbe" with the internet we always use in our lives (dabbe means something is spread around the world) because the world wide web and the dabbe both have the same function. This argument of the director has been used in almost every movies of him.Like previous movies, the movie "Dabbe: Cin Çarpması" is also telling about Karacadag's metaphysical inquiry results. You'll be hearing of some things related to doomsday, jinns, devil etc. which you've never heard before. Like other movies of the director, this movie also will add a very different point of view to your mind about your metaphysical senses you used to have beside its thrilling side.