Semum

Semum

Release Date:  2/8/2008
Country of Release:  Turkey
Length:  116 minutes
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  CRI FAN HOR
Release Message:  Twenty-seven-year-old Canan (Ayca Inci) gradually starts turning into an evil creature as a mysterious and malicious being takes control of her body and actions day after day.
Description:  Twenty-seven-year-old Canan (Aya nci) and her husband Volkan (Burak Hakk ) have just moved into a large, new house. Life seems to continue on its routine track in the young couple's new house until one day, when Canan starts feeling that strange things are happening to her although she cannot understand what or why. Canan gradually starts turning into an evil creature as a mysterious and malicious being takes control of her body and actions day after day. Semum, the most loyal servant of the devil, has taken control of Canan, leading her toward hell. Director Hasan Karacadag argues that he tried to create a model of a Turkish-Islamic horror film and that he would make the world recognize this model, of which he sees "Semum" as the first example. "Semum" stars Aya inci, Burak Hakki and Cem Kurtoglu in the lead roles and recounts the true story of a woman who lives in Izmir. "Semum" will be compared with "The Exorcist" and inci will be compared with Linda Blair, the director says, noting that the Turkish horror films made so far have been far from satisfactory.