Under the Shadow
Amidst the terrors of the post-revolution, war torn Tehran of the 1980s, Shideh elects to stay in the city with her daughter a mysterious. But then evil begins to haunt their home, attempting to possess her daughter. Shideh has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
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22 September 1974, New York City, New York, USA
9 March 1965, New Hyde Park, New York, USA
16 August 1958, Tehran, Iran
5 March 1958, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
21 March 1980, Khorramabad, Iran
19 November 1984, Tehran, Iran
January 02, 2017
Anvari makes great use of this highly specific time and setting -- the air raids are always unnerving and one sequence in which Shideh runs into the empty streets of Tehran in a panic is just terrific.
October 19, 2016
Intimate horror about the dark things lurking in a family home, and, more interestingly, in the minds of women.
October 06, 2016
The most consistent fear in Anvari's film is that of being a mother and daughter alone in a world that won't help or respect you. Far more so than djinn, this is a fear that doesn't easily dissipate.
December 29, 2016
'Under the Shadow' is one of the more technically graceful and emotionally important films to come out of the genre this year.
February 17, 2017
With a minimal budget, [Babak] Anvari still manages to deliver a wholly unnerving universe.
November 18, 2016
The shift from family drama to djinn game is so subtle as to be barely perceived
October 10, 2016
Did you honestly doubt that peeling duct tape and a sheet of printed fabric, if handled with imaginative brio, could be as frightening as any ten-million-dollar monster? O ye of little faith.
January 26, 2017
A sinister tapestry of urban unease and feminist fury that turns an ordinary domestic setting into a place of skulking terror. Original and deeply creepy.
October 06, 2016
Quietly nerve-pricking ...
December 21, 2016
Those unexpected beats make for a deeply emotional and harrowing journey for not only Shideh and Dorsa, but for viewers as well.
October 07, 2016
There is no escape, for characters or audience. Under the Shadow is unnerving in the extreme.
