Turkish horror film D@bbe turned a lot of heads in 2006 thanks to the way it fused a sort of Kiyoshi Kurosawa J-horror sensibility with Islamic mythology. The film did big business in its homeland, more than enough that the expectation was that young writer-director Hasan Karacadag would move directly into production on a sequel. This has ended up not being the case ... Karacadag IS currently wrapping production on his sophomore film but it is not connected to his initial success. Titled Semum the film once again draws on Islamic mythology and demons as its inspiration but we know little beyond that. A first teaser has arrived - and is available in English, no less! - and while it shows very little actual footage from the film what is included makes it pretty clear that Karacadag had a better budget to work with this time and the cinematography is a good bit better while also indulging Turkey's traditional campy edge. You'll find the teaser in the Twitch Video Player, embedded below the break.
I thought D&bbe;was a terrible film, the acting didnt help though, very nice trailer and premise but the film was very average, Its put me off Turkish Horror forever.
Before D@bbe there was no Turkish horror film.When Hasan Karacadag made dabbe with low budget but big succsess,turkish producers discovered horror movie making for Turkish cinema industry.(after dabbe;Araf,gen,gomeda,kucuk kiyamet,kabuslar evi,musallat,Ulak made by turkish producers)...And I don't know why,always same persons wrote everywhere bad comments about dabbe.Now Semum will come and these same people will start attack to this film too.But I can say this teaser is pretty and charismatic,I hope it will be better than D@bbe!