Araf

Is this a horror movie?Are you sure!I could not see so cheap scares, so cheap directing, and so cheap acting.'Araf' is look like a very simple and very bad student short movie!This film totally sucks the life out of his story with an incapable cast and acting, horrible dialog, and poor production values in every area.The digital effects are look like the movies of 50 years ago.

Editing is ridiculous' Directing is very amateurish' Producing is unprofessional' SO How can we say that is a movie! 'Araf' doesn't even minimally seem to care about accuracy or authenticity.it is like some awful inside joke played upon the audience.I could slap myself silly for wasting my money. I could have bought a good cup of coffee and read a good book instead.In turkey there is ver very good movies.Please don't forget 'Araf' is not a sample of Turkish movie!

Listen. I do not like to criticize my own country's movies for we are in the birthing pains of a stable film industry, but what the hell,this movie is horrific...

Starting synopsis fresh from the newspaper, no spoiler intended during the movie. You can read safely.

The story itself starts as sexist, misogynous and anti-abortion biased. A girl had committed adultery with a married man when she went to the university, and had a baby which had to be aborted. Now she is happily married, and expecting a baby, and her aborted baby's spirit,accepted neither in heaven nor hell begins to...

STOP.

First, the "married man" isn't troubled, the GIRL is. So, it is her sin that she must bear. Second, aborted babies linger between in heaven and hell and trouble people, indicating gross mistakes in theology. Third, it is a mishmash of every horror movie, with the stereotypical stupidity form Ring, Shining, Grudge added with a small girl with long hair. THe idea itself is stillborn.

Murat Yldirim for this movie is winner the Altin Portugal

"They shall have a bed of hell-fire ... thus do we reward the unjust"

This is one of the finest horror films I have seen in a long time. It is terrifying and heartbreaking.

The musical score and cinematography are brilliant. The use of color, and shadow are masterful. The acting is excellent.

The tension is so great that the quite tame scary parts are nearly unbearable.

Some of the imagery is horrific.

I know that I am experiencing a great horror film when I need to take a rest period at some point and then return to it. I did that with "The Exorcist" and "Suspiria" and I had to do that with this film.

Unfortunately, like so many horror films, the ending seems like an afterthought. Very disappointing. I wish the film makers put as much thought and creativity into the ending as they had the rest of the film.

This film will get neither the recognition, nor the distribution it deserves given the theme and the politics of abortion in the mainstream film industry. Too bad. Thank you to Pathfinder Pictures for making this film available on DVD.

This is a "must see - not to be missed" film for the fan of Gothic Horror.

Not a bad horror movie. I watch a lot of horror movies, and this one seems to be inspired from a few of them. It reminds me Japanese horror movies. Overall, it is a good movie. Special effects could be better, but Turkish movie industry is not that advanced yet. I have looked at the comments and most of the people have not even seen the movie.. One of them voted 1 because he thinks it is about the old TV show Alf. It is far from being the worst movie as some suggest. Just think this way, how many Turkish horror movies are there out there? From the few, how would you rate this. Do not compare it to American horror movies. Compare it to other Turkish horror movies.