Pretty good Turkish possession flick plays out like a nasty Shaw Brothers black magic horror film just without the nudity. Öznur is in love with her cousin Kudret but he’s married to her good friend Nisa and has a blind daughter as well. Still, they hooked up and she got pregnant and Kudret wants nothing to do with her. She has a miscarriage and Kudret (being the gem of a human that he is) sees this as being for the best and tells her to stay the hell away from him. She doesn’t take this well and heads out to see a sorcerer to figure out what can be done. What can be done is a called a “pig spell” and it will invoke a dangerous demon to possess and kill Nisa and her bloodline. Öznur (who has had nothing but my sympathy up to this point) decides that a few dead bodies shouldn’t stand in the way of her happiness. So the nasty spell plays out and Nisa begins to lose it as horrific crap keeps happening to her but Öznur is also getting hit with some weird shit (her dead husband’s bloodied spirit pays a visit, leeches are thrown up) and it seems she may have screwed something up in the process of collecting the blood she needed for the spell. There’s a few predictable but well-orchestrated jump scares and it never really reaches the insanity of an SB sleaze classic (especially durning the lame climatic exorcism) but it’s still a fine time. There is a bit of sad-fart of an ending but ya can’t win ‘em all.
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