The Turkish Coffee Table (2025) Fantaspoa 2026

I ended my review of the original version of this story saying "If you want to go to a really dark place THE COFFEE TABLE is highly recommended. Me I don't know if I want to go there again."  I had hoped never to see the film again... and then I found out the great director Can Evrenol had a new film  and I watched it blind never figuring that it would be a remake of a film that deeply disturbed me to my soul. It's not only a remake but it often ups the ante.

The plot has some new parents buying a coffee table for their home. Not long after, while the baby is alone with the father, something terrible happens. What follows is the blackest of comedies, in a way, that is funny in the most uncomfortable ways until it isn't.

Largely following the script for the the original Spanish film, Evenrol sticks with what worked in the original film, adding some shading of his own (it's graphic in ways the first film wasn't) and he plays with the fourth wall. Its moves that may or may not upset fans of the first film. I'm not certain that things had to be tweaked myself, however I do have to admit enough is changed that even knowing what was going to happen I had to keep watching to see if that's what happened.

On a personal level I've been a fan of Evenrol since his film BASKIN a few years back, and I've loved all his other films. He is a one of a kind filmmaker whose film I hunt down. While I admire what he did with this remake, I kind of wish he had either done a bit more change things up, or had just told his own story. That's not a knock on the film, only a statement that I am finding remakes less thrilling, especially when the original is so stellar.

That said, This is absolutely  not for everyone, at the same time if you liked the first film or like deeply disturbing films that drags the blackness into the light this film is worth a try. Its a good film if you like this sort of thing.