Bengi (Esin Harvey) is not in the best of spirits of late, not only is she pregnant and her hormones are playing up (as they're suspected to be), she's also unsure if the baby is really her husband Bertan's (Görkem Mertsöz) or out of an affair with Cem (Erdogan Ünlü) - who has become increasingly possessive since she has become pregnant. And then Bertan rents a house on an island in the middle of nowhere without even consulting with her, and since due to her condition she's too weak to argue, she wills in ... but in the house, nothing seems right, even if it's supposed to be abandoned, there are fresh clothes in the wardrobes, dishes in the cupboards and the like. Plus, it seems there's somebody in the house - but Bertan attributes it all to Bengi's overactive imagination due to her pregnancy. But then a woman past her prime, Naciye (Derya Alabora) comes knocking at the door, claiming they're in her house, scaring Bengi shitless and causing a huge argument between her and Bertan. But hey, Naciye looks harmless enough after all ... until she stabs Bertan, then goes after Bengi - and things go downhill from there, as Naciye has a history with the house, including incest and murder, and even if Bengi's got a lot of fight in her, Naciye's not one to give it up so easily ...

Naciye is a highly disturbing film that really lets one feel the horrors happening on screen - not so much by showing them, but by sucking the audience into the very specific world of the movie by giving away pieces of the backstories of the characters (in two separate timelines) at just the right plotpoints to not only keep things interesting but to make them more shocking, and making the audience identify with the characters (both good and evil) better at the same time. Now add to that a directorial effort well aware of how to build suspense and when to set sudden shocks, and you're in for a brilliant horror experience!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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