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Genre: Thriller, Horror
Availability: Now
Director: Patricio Valladares
Writers: Loris Curci, Barry Keating
Cast: Selma Ergeç, Selim Bayraktar, Gianni Capaldi, Natalie Burn
Production Company: Sanor Film (FBR Productions)
Producer(s): Barış Abacıgil, Loris Curci
Duration: 90 minutes
Production Year: 2017
Original Language: English
Also Known As: “Kanlı Girdap” in Turkish
Plot: American documentarian John Gillespie and his crew travel to Turkey to shoot a docu-film about Vlad Tepes, the Romanian Emperor known as Vlad the Impaler. Tepes was imprisoned in Turkey for a number of years before dying on the battlefield in his native country. His body was brought back to Istanbul and buried somewhere.. Or so the legend says. During their research, John and his crew are introduced to a mysterious historian who claims to have evidence of
Tepes’ burial site. Things take an unexpected twist when the Americans run into a sinister story of children that were abucted and brutally sacrificed in a village not too far from Istanbul. Apparently, the very same place where Vlad had been kept prisoner prior to his death.. John is skeptical but agrees to investigate further. And
thus begins his journey to Garip. The village of ghosts. The place where it allbegan, and where all will end..