Dabbe

I saw this movie a few day ago. It's not originally and unique movie but have a few newness in Turkish Horror cinema. Dabbe is first movie of KIYAMET(Doomsday) trilogy. We wait for "Deccal and Mehdi" and last movie "Isa Mesih". A director used metaphysical and technological elements together in a movie. This is a revolution for Turkish cinema culture. Writer and Director Hasan Karacadag knows Asian, especially Japanese horror movie well. Dabbe remind me Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Kairo" and Hideo Nakata's "Ringu". He adapted Islamic believes to Asian horror aesthetic and telecommunication technology. Dabbe is a sign of end of world. Movie has inspired by Neml Sura in Koran. Director preferred darkness and and blurred colors. Sciences are not enough for explain some events. As in this movie. Sound effects are very successfully.

I recommend watching!

The story of the movie is real great. There are couple of other movies like this one(Büyü). The real freaky thing about it is that at the gala of Büyü the movie theater burnt down, a lot of things went wrong during the filming. And at the filming of this movie(Dabbe), according to director and cast, there where couple of shapes flashing in the pictures. And the director got really scary nightmares where he got warned.

This doesn't surprise me, the movies tell's us about beings that are mentioned in the Quran.

Have fun watching it.

Actually I was surprised when I read the other comments. Everybody is concerning about bad script, bad actors, disturbing effects etc. But i have found "388@0" successful. It has a script that fits to "Kairo"-"Pulse". But more than that, it has some cultural components as "djins". They are evil spirits that they can not effect human life directly. But Turkish culture has a lot of stories about djin attacks to human life. The name of the film "DaBBE" refers to "dabbet-ul arz" of the Islam. "Dabbet-ul arz" is Arabic and means "the one that walks on earth". It is mentioned in the Qoran (the holy book of Muslims). It will come to earth as one of the last signs of the Armageddon. And it will tell everybody that who will go to heaven or hell. Because of containing cultural scary myths, "DABBE" has a psychological element to scare audience. That is why it is successful. It takes a original script and adapts it to the cultural myths. So you are not scared of audio/visual effects but deep in your brain, the script makes you scared. But, yes actors and actress are so bad. One more thing to mention. The characters have some e-mails or phone calls after the first death. The subject of the e-mails and the phone number of the dialer is shown as "388@0". When you look this in the mirror. You see "0@88E" = "D@BBE"

Dabbe is the best Turkish horror film ever.Most of people thinks that the film is very bad.But i don't think like them.There are some reasons.

First this film is first cinema experience for the director.He is trying to do something.And i think he is very good for the first time.He covers the films expense.They have too much impossibilities but they were made it.Everybody knows that the Turkish horror film sector is very bad.But this film is different to them.Its effects are too realistic against the others.And its theme is not used before.It uses the Islamic belief.Dabbe will come the world at the doomsday.This film trying to uses it.After that too many people gone this film.But they have too much prejudice.That gives negative energy to the film.

There are bad things in film.First is the players.They are really bad.The second one is dialogs.it may be better.

Finally; this film isn't a classic.it is not perfect.But it was tried.And i think its successful.

When I watched 'Dabbe'I was shocking.Because The budget of this film is only 100.000 Dollar.This film is about the doomsday of Islamic belief.This is very hard story for a movie maker,especially in Turkey.Because there is a lot of taboo about Islamic themes.The director of 'Dabbe' ''Hasan Karacadag'' is very courageous and first I want to congratulate him for his courage. The word 'Dabbe' appears in a number of verses of the Qur'an, although Surat an-Naml: 82 is the only one that refers to this particular event that will happen in the final times. When we set out the features of the 'Dabbe' as it appears in this verse, the following picture emerges:

1. The 'Dabbe' is a moving like hair(The cables of internet)

2. The 'Dabbe' is the product of the earth.(silicon-computer)

3. The 'Dabbe'is a thing or creature that speaks and gives a particular message, which is addressed to all of mankind.

4.The mean of 'dabbe'(Sanskritic language):Things,like spider's web

So this movie says:'Dabbe'is internet The edit of 'Dabbe'is so interesting.I could not see ever this paradoxically storytelling in another horror movies.Also 'dabbe' using internet for deep horror impact.I watched 'kairo' and pulse.I liked 'kairo' but pulse is very weak.Ithink The success of Dabbe is secret in this word;''DJinns''.'Dabbe' does'not use Ghost,souls,zombie,vampire etc.It use the scary of Jinns.In the mirror life and in the Shadow life you can feel the power of them.They are Jinns and they want to contact with people.They are using internet and they want to connect with the brain of human.They are copying you and they shown you, just ''other piece of YOU'.What is the other piece of you;If you wonder please watch 'D@bbe' immediately!The doomsday is very near!