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Naciye
Naciye - Open the Door
Turkey 2015
produced by Lutfu Emre Cicek, Naciye Sonbay (executive), Ekmel Sonbay (executive) for Sonbay Sanat ve Produksiyon
directed by Lutfu Emre Cicek
starring Derya Alabora, Esin Harvey, Görkem Mertsöz, Refik Zafer Cicek, Erdogan Ünlü, Özlem Durmaz, Ilgin Cakir, Oguzhan Tolon, Ercümet Fidan, Zeynep Köker, Serdar Aslan, Elifcan Ekinci, Benan Tezel, Semsi Can Albayrak
written by Lutfu Emre Cicek, music by Zafer Aslan, special effects by Dükkan-ül Hayal
review by Mike Haberfelner
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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!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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