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Dr. Deniz
has just started working at an old mental
institution which is being closed down shortly. Why?
Because her mother suffers from a mental illness so
she wants to help others who are in the same state
of condition. Unfortunately, there might not be many
patients left to treat when a serial killer shows up
and starts offing the patients one by one.
After reading a couple of glowing reviews for this new
Turkish horror thriller, I was hoping that this wouldn't
be as bland and unoriginal as the other recent Turkish
horror movies that I've seen (Dabbe, Büyü and Okul).
Well, on one hand, it's not, but on another hand, it's
even worse than the previously mentioned movies.
Taking a different approach to the slasher genre and
having the killer targeting mental patients was a
quite neat idea, at least in theory. Unfortunately,
it doesn't do so well on film.
The movie revolves around a young female doctor who have
just started working at a mental institution. Most of
the staff members at the hospital act pretty strange,
and to make things even worse, a killer in a trench coat
shows up and starts killing off the patients. Once again,
this might sound like a good idea, but it went in all
the wrong directions and took all the wrong turns. It
doesn't know whether it wants to be a crime thriller or
a slasher flick and ends up being both - a mix that
rarely works, it tries way too hard to be creepy and
ends up being quite tedious, but what frustrated me the
most was how it ridiculed its audience.
Gen desperately wants to be a clever murder mystery movie,
but the script writers were either very uncreative
people or, and this is my theory, thought that horror
fans are generally stupid. See, any slightly
experienced horror movie fan will have figured out who
the killer is within the first ten minutes. SPOILER
AHEAD: (come on, Dr. Deniz shows up and the killings
start, what a coincidence huh?). END OF SPOILER. Hell,
most of us have probably even figured out the killers
motive before the movie hits the hour-mark. So yeah,
this could easily just be poor creative skills, but
that doesn't excuse that they've thrown in an "obvious"
killer (naturally the obvious one is never the real one)
who lurks around in the hospital corridors looking evil
and mysterious. To me, that's thinking that the audience
is stupid and will believe anything.
What's even worse is that most of us have all ready
figured out the additional twist about the hospital
after five minutes or so, which leaves us with an hour
and thirty minutes of "mystery" until the predictable
twist ending is finally revealed and we finally get
to say the words "Well, duh!" out loudly.
This movie was about as tedious as it could possibly
get and it definitely is a difficult movie to sit
through. The killings are as unimaginative as everything
else about the movie, and we never even find out why
the killer removes the victims organs (which is just
one of several plot holes to be found in the movie).
The only good thing that I have to say about this movie
is that the colours were nice. I loved the grey tone
and the setting was excellent for a horror movie. Too
bad they had to go down cliché lane and throw as many
horror movie cliché's as they possibly could at us.
Turkey, I'm sorry to say it, but if you want to be on
the horror movie map, you'll have to come up with something
a little more inspiring than this junk. I feel ashamed
for the people who actually liked this movie as that
probably means that they didn't see the twists coming.
There's a lot of suggested gore but very little actual
gore - not too surprisingly.
This was just odd. It starts out with some techno beats,
only to move on to, what I can only describe as, some
cheesy track that didn't make it into the latest James
Bond movie. The suspense score didn't do much either.
I have yet to see a great Turkish horror movie, and Gen
was yet another turkey (pun intended). In fact, this was
actually the worst Turkish horror movie that I've seen so I
don't understand why it has gotten so many positive reviews.
The story and twists makes one believe that the writers
of the movie thought that horror movie fans are morons,
and I'm not one to support that. If you want to watch a
tedious and ridiculously predictable slasher-wannabe,
check it out, but actually, don't.
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