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Five friends go
to the caves in Gomeda and encounter
all kinds of spooky things on their way. Could the
caves be haunted? What really happened in Gomeda? Who
the hell knows, nothing is ever explained anyway!
Some call it a horror film, some call it a surrealistic
film, some call it an art film. Personally, I don't
really know what to call it, but one things for sure;
whatever it is, it bites! Gomeda was a box office
disaster in Turkey, receiving bad reviews from just
about everyone who had went in expecting a horror
film - perhaps they expected this since it was marketed
as one. Meanwhile, fans of surrealist cinema seemed
to love it for whatever reason. Either way, I knew
after five minutes that I was going to hate this movie,
and I was right!
Gomeda revolves around five teenagers who go to visit
the caves in Gomeda and it doesn't take long before
strange stuff starts to happen. Sure enough, haunted
caves is a pretty cool concept if far from original,
but the thing is, nothing ever made sense. Gomeda is
an incoherent mess with a scrabbled storyline. It's
almost impossible to follow the sketchy story and I'm
not even sure that the ghost were supposed to scare
the audience. In fact, I didn't get why there were
even ghosts in the movie as they served no real
purpose in my opinion. Unless this was actually meant
to be a horror film of course, and if that's the
case, then they sure as hell failed to deliver the
horror. Confused? Well, now you know how I feel!
I find it very difficult to review this film as
nothing, and I mean NOTHING, made sense at all. I'm
still not sure what I just sat through, nor am I
sure why I didn't just turn it off. The entire film
basically consists of odd scenes patched together
at random, which of few are connected to each other.
Trying to understand this movie is like trying to
understand how Bush thinks. We have a dead clown
hanging from the roof at a gas station, a ghost woman
pregnant with a knife, a bunch of ghost kids, coffins
appearing from out of nowhere, ehmm, do I need to
say more? If this is surrealism, then that must mean
that surrealism is what you call movies with stories
that make no sense and lead up to nowhere.
Ultimately, this was just bizarre. I don't really
know what they were trying to do here as it doesn't
feel like a proper movie. It feels like an
experimental project gone terribly wrong. I'm not
surprised that it flopped in Turkish cinemas as no
one in their right minds would be able to enjoy
this movie. And for those of you who did, please
explain to me what was so good about it, because
I just didn't get it.
Nothing special.
Decent soundtrack but didn't really matter.
One of the weirdest movies that I've seen in my entire
life. Never before have I seen such an incomprehensible
and sketchy horror flick. Not a single scene in this
movie makes sense or has anything to do with anything.
There is also minor dialogue and I'm pretty sure that
the script was a rush job. What more can I say? It's
absolute rubbish, but for those of you who like movies
that give you migraine, be my guest.
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