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After the car breaks down, three young couples - Müge (Sevil Uyar) and
Sertec (Kerem Firtina), Tudce (Tamla Debre) and Kurtuluc (Ogün
Kaptanoglu), Ada (Öykü Akay) and Taylan (Pashan Yilmazel) - working on a
project for university are forced to stay in a spooky old house, where
they are first scared half shitless, then confronted with a video that
tells some nasty secrets of their past, like when Müge persuaded Kurtuluc
to rape Sertec's then girlfriend Ezgi (Almeda Abazi), who later had a
traffic accident and has since been in a coma because of that experience. Why
did Müge do that? Because she wanted Sertec to be her boyfriend, and it
worked. In fact, she seduced Sertec to keep him from interfering with the
rape of his then-girlfriend. Thing is, that's not even all there is to the
story. Turns out that Ada and Taylan were in a jam and wanted to steal
Müge's jewellery but had to hide when Kurtuluc dragged Ezgi into the room
to rape her, but couldn't interfere because then they would have been
caught red-handed themselves. All these revelations about their past has
the sextet up in arms against one another, and only after accusing one
another and beating one another senseless, they realize there must be
someone else in the house, someone else who soon enough locks them inside,
then dishes out punishments fitting the guys and girls' crimes: Kurtuluc
gets his penis cut off, beauty-obsessed Müge gets her face distorted by
acid to a degree that she wants to kill herself, and Taylan is blinded.
The others are just shocked, bruised and battered, then the house releases
them again. But who was behind all of this? Ezgi's family of course,
her big sister being the university professor who sent the kids on their
assignement in the first place ... For the most part, this is a
pretty effective old dark house thriller that keeps up the tension
throughout and devices a clever (if not all that original) way of giving
the initially bland characters a backstory via flashbacks that are also
the key to the mystery. A competent cast doesn't hurt too much either,
neither do a bunch of well-done suspense scenes. That all said, the film
doesn't offer anything new to the genre, nothing that hasn't been done
before (except maybe the fact that nobody dies in this film), the
directorial effort is effective but by no means inventive, and the finale
is a big letdown and seems to come out of nowhere. Still, a very ok
genre effort.
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