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Dehşet Konağı
A newly hired babysitter teams up with a thief to steal the baby and valuables from the house where she works. Doctor Kemal Arıtürk, who lived in the same house in the 1920s, unintentionally caused the death of his baby Latife with his brutal experiments on people and was cursed. His soul has been imprisoned in this house for centuries. The Doctor's spirit, protecting the babies growing at home, awakens to danger. The chase for the transformation begins with the keeper and the thief.
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A newly hired babysitter teams up with a thief to steal the baby and valuables from the house where she works. Doctor Kemal Arıtürk, who lived in the same house in the 1920s, unintentionally caused the death of his baby Latife with his brutal experiments on people and was cursed. His soul has been imprisoned in this house for centuries. The Doctor's spirit, protecting the babies growing at home, awakens to danger. The chase for the transformation begins with the keeper and the thief.
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