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Though audiences abroad may not be familiar with the name of Alper Mestçi he has quickly become one of the dominant forces within Turkish genre film. Having started as a writer Mestçi first appeared on the feature scene with 2007 horror effort Musallat, winning notice at home and abroad for his feature debut and launching a career that spans eight features as a director. And the latest - Üç Harfliler 3 - features plenty of what caught the eye in his earliest work. You want local religion, superstition and folk tales rolled up into a dark phantasmagoria of spooks and scares? Because that's what Mestçi does best and there's a whole lot of it on display in the trailer for this latest effort, a trailer...

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Though Turkey is a country with a long history of genre film that history is precisely that: History. And largely in the past. Here in the present things are a bit different with just a small group of directors working within horror film and, of those, very few stick in the genre for long. Which makes Alper Mestçi something of an anomaly.Writer-director Mestçi made his debut back in 2007 with horror effort Musallat (Haunted), and while he also has a couple of comedies to his credit he returned to horror with a 2011 sequel to his debut and now again with upcoming effort Siccin. The trailer for this one promises all manner of dark delights ... blood sacrifice, black magic, sinister cults ... if you...

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