Hasan Karacadağ

Hasan Karacadağ is a Turkish director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his Dabbe series, which consists of genie and magic-themed horror films; It has an important role in the spread of this genre in Turkish cinema.

He was born on October 20, 1976 in Şanlıurfa. He received his cinema education in Japan and graduated from Nippon Eizo Juku's cinema direction department in 1998. He directed short films, documentaries, television films and TV series both in Japan and Türkiye.

horror cinema

He made his name known for the first time with Hummadroz, which was shown at the Istanbul Film Festival in 1999. Released in 2006, Dabbe brought together Anatolian jinn beliefs with the narrative techniques of Japanese horror cinema and turned into a series; the series reached six films. He also shot films in the same vein, such as Semum (2008) and El-Cin. Dabbe films also found audiences abroad through digital platforms in the following years.

In 2016, he directed the English-language production Magi, starring Michael Madsen and Stephen Baldwin. This film is his last known directorial work.

Karacadağ continues to be one of the first names that come to mind in Turkish horror cinema with his approach combining local beliefs with the horror genre.