[Our thanks to Serdar Kökçeoğlu for the following.]
Modern Turkish cinema continues to present new genres of movies, in contrast with the more traditional facade it had in the past. And carrying on with that trend, two new movies have just hit the big screen, claiming to be the first in their genres to be released; Ejder Kapanı (Dragon Trap), a serial killer story, and Ada: Zombilerin Düğünü (Island: The Wedding of Zombies), as its title suggests, is about zombies. Whilst qualifying these movies as "first in their genre" could be seen as a marketing tactic, they may not be wrong after all.
We have indeed seen in the past movies adopting "a serial killer" theme before, or witnessed actors walking like zombies; however such attempts were never really taken seriously, nor were they intended to be. And in that sense, 'Dragon Trap' differs from that and could be rightly called not only the first serial killer movie,...
Modern Turkish cinema continues to present new genres of movies, in contrast with the more traditional facade it had in the past. And carrying on with that trend, two new movies have just hit the big screen, claiming to be the first in their genres to be released; Ejder Kapanı (Dragon Trap), a serial killer story, and Ada: Zombilerin Düğünü (Island: The Wedding of Zombies), as its title suggests, is about zombies. Whilst qualifying these movies as "first in their genre" could be seen as a marketing tactic, they may not be wrong after all.
We have indeed seen in the past movies adopting "a serial killer" theme before, or witnessed actors walking like zombies; however such attempts were never really taken seriously, nor were they intended to be. And in that sense, 'Dragon Trap' differs from that and could be rightly called not only the first serial killer movie,...
- 2/5/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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