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Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest film HOUSEWIFE at the Horror Channel Frightfest Halloween event, director Can Evrenol tells us why film is a ‘pervert’s art’, shares his feelings for Fulci and reveals his contribution to Horror Anthology The Field Guide To Evil. Was it important to make your follow-up film to BASKIN in the English language?   CAN: I wanted to make the film available for a wider audience and to test myself with a different language movie. I thought it was a fun thing to do.   How do you describe HOUSEWIFE? What would be your perfect pitch line?   CAN: Man, I had this crazy fu*ked-up dream last night! Do you want to see it?   Like BASKIN, HOUSEWIFE shares many similar themes of sexuality, family, social claustrophobia and surreal nightmares. Why are these elements so important to you? CAN: The day I find out why, I would probably quit filmmaking and move onto more tangible things in life.   Elaborate m...

Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest film HOUSEWIFE at the Horror Channel Frightfest Halloween event, director Can Evrenol tells us why film is a ‘pervert’s art’, shares his feelings for Fulci and reveals his contribution to Horror Anthology The Field Guide To Evil. Was it important to make your follow-up film to BASKIN in the English language?   CAN: I wanted to make the film available for a wider audience and to test myself with a different language movie. I thought it was a fun thing to do.   How do you describe HOUSEWIFE? What would be your perfect pitch line?   CAN: Man, I had this crazy fu*ked-up dream last night! Do you want to see it?   Like BASKIN, HOUSEWIFE shares many similar themes of sexuality, family, social claustrophobia and surreal nightmares. Why are these elements so important to you? CAN: The day I find out why, I would probably quit filmmaking and move onto more tangible things in life.   Elaborate m...

Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest film HOUSEWIFE at the Horror Channel Frightfest Halloween event, director Can Evrenol tells us why film is a ‘pervert’s art’, shares his feelings for Fulci and reveals his contribution to Horror Anthology The Field Guide To Evil. Was it important to make your follow-up film to BASKIN in the English language?   CAN: I wanted to make the film available for a wider audience and to test myself with a different language movie. I thought it was a fun thing to do.   How do you describe HOUSEWIFE? What would be your perfect pitch line?   CAN: Man, I had this crazy fu*ked-up dream last night! Do you want to see it?   Like BASKIN, HOUSEWIFE shares many similar themes of sexuality, family, social claustrophobia and surreal nightmares. Why are these elements so important to you? CAN: The day I find out why, I would probably quit filmmaking and move onto more tangible things in life.   Elaborate more on why you say HOUSEWIFE is your hom...

Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest film HOUSEWIFE at the Horror Channel Frightfest Halloween event, director Can Evrenol tells us why film is a ‘pervert’s art’, shares his feelings for Fulci and reveals his contribution to Horror Anthology The Field Guide To Evil. Was it important to make your follow-up film to BASKIN in the English language?   CAN: I wanted to make the film available for a wider audience and to test myself with a different language movie. I thought it was a fun thing to do.   How do you describe HOUSEWIFE? What would be your perfect pitch line?   CAN: Man, I had this crazy fu*ked-up dream last night! Do you want to see it?   Like BASKIN, HOUSEWIFE shares many similar themes of sexuality, family, social claustrophobia and surreal nightmares. Why are these elements so important to you? CAN: The day I find out why, I would probably quit filmmaking and move onto more tangible things in life.   Elaborate more on why you say HOUSEWIFE is your hom...

About: Born and raised in Istanbul, Evrenol studied Film Studies and Art History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Upon graduating, he has independently written, directed and produced short horror films, which won him several international awards, as well as being officially selected to more than 40 international genre film festivals around the world. His feature debut film Baskin (2015), based on his 2013 short film of the same title, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section, and awarded the Best Director at Austin Fantasticfest's New Wave Awards. --- Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, we asked the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: What were the challenges of elongating the BASKIN short film ideas into a full feature? A brief history of Turkish genre cinema and the must-see movies virgins should see? Please refer to the awesome award winning documentary "Rem...

About: Born and raised in Istanbul, Evrenol studied Film Studies and Art History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Upon graduating, he has independently written, directed and produced short horror films, which won him several international awards, as well as being officially selected to more than 40 international genre film festivals around the world. His feature debut film Baskin (2015), based on his 2013 short film of the same title, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section, and awarded the Best Director at Austin Fantasticfest's New Wave Awards. --- Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, we asked the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: What were the challenges of elongating the BASKIN short film ideas into a full feature? A brief history of Turkish genre cinema and the must-see movies virgins should see? Please refer to the awesome award winning documentary "Rem...

About: Born and raised in Istanbul, Evrenol studied Film Studies and Art History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Upon graduating, he has independently written, directed and produced short horror films, which won him several international awards, as well as being officially selected to more than 40 international genre film festivals around the world. His feature debut film Baskin (2015), based on his 2013 short film of the same title, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section, and awarded the Best Director at Austin Fantasticfest's New Wave Awards. --- Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, we asked the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: What were the challenges of elongating the BASKIN short film ideas into a full feature? A brief history of Turkish genre cinema and the must-see movies virgins should see? Please refer to the awesome award winning documentary "Remake, Remix, Rip-O...

About: Born and raised in Istanbul, Evrenol studied Film Studies and Art History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Upon graduating, he has independently written, directed and produced short horror films, which won him several international awards, as well as being officially selected to more than 40 international genre film festivals around the world. His feature debut film Baskin (2015), based on his 2013 short film of the same title, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section, and awarded the Best Director at Austin Fantasticfest's New Wave Awards. --- Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, we asked the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: What were the challenges of elongating the BASKIN short film ideas into a full feature? A brief history of Turkish genre cinema and the must-see movies virgins should see? Please refer to the awesome award winning documentary "Remake, Remix, Rip-O...