Dabbe arrived in Turkish cinemas in 2015 as a two-hour-and-forty-minute entry in the country's long-running franchise of supernatural horror built around possession and exorcism.
What is Dabbe about?
The story follows a young girl whose life is upended after she watches her mother die at the hands of forces that cannot be explained by ordinary means. Desperate for answers, the household turns to a doctor who has already lived through a strikingly similar case involving another girl years earlier. As the two threads of the story converge, the doctor's own past experience becomes the key to understanding what is happening in the present, and the investigation pulls both characters toward a set of events neither of them expected to face again.
About the cast
K-Time's catalogue entry for this title does not carry a credited cast list, so no performer names are attached to the page. The film follows the franchise's usual pattern of centering the story on the young girl at the heart of the haunting and the outside investigator drawn in to help her, a structure the wider Dabbe series has repeated across its run of Turkish supernatural horror films.
Context & significance
The Dabbe franchise built its reputation on found-footage-adjacent scares rooted in regional folk belief rather than the Western haunted-house template, and this 2015 installment continues that approach with a plot built around inherited trauma and a doctor's return to a case he thought was closed. Turkish horror rarely reaches wide international distribution, which makes entries like this one a useful way to see how a national horror tradition builds its own rules around possession, ritual and the doctor-as-investigator figure.
Watching Dabbe on Ktime
Dabbe is free to browse and read about on K-Time without an account; watching the film itself requires logging into a K-Time account, after which the title streams alongside the rest of the horror catalogue. The service is built around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking audiences in the diaspora, with the interface, search and recommendations all designed around that audience.