The original title SİCCÎN Director Alper Mestçi returned to his horror works with this franchise after successfully making a pair of global box office hits.
Right from the start, each of the films gained global acceptance and were quickly recognized as new wave of Turkish horror genre.
[3] The title of this franchise is derived from the Arabic word Sijjin (سِجِّين) meaning either a book that lists the names of the damned or a prison, located in the bottom of hell.
The first film was about Öznur, a beautiful woman who fell in love with a man known as Kudret, who is her cousin.
The second film wass about Hicran and Adnan, a happily married couple with their 1 year old child.
Everyday Hicran washed the dead child’s clothes and dried it as she thinks he is alive.
Hodjah said that her son is in Heaven with the angels and she has been trapped in a bad spell which has a link with her aunt.
Hicran's mother narrates her that she had a sister whose husband was a gambler and he had killed his daughters brutally.
Hicran give Hodjah the old doll then he finds that a chit inside in it wrote an evil spell.
Then the shaman accepted Irma's request, namely by sending black magic to Galang's wife in 5 night terrors.
The third installment of the franchise, Sijjin 3: Crime of Love, was nominated for SIYAD Award by Turkish Film Critics Association in 2016.
Director Alper Mestçi received nomination for the Giovanni Scognamillo Award in Best Fantastic Film category, same year, for the entry.