The farsi-language horror film Under the Shadow, written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Babak Anvari, is arriving in theaters on October 7 after World Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this past January.
Set in post-revolution Tehran, during the Iran-Iraq war, the film a follows a young mother who remains with her six-year-old daughter when others are fleeing local fighting. Things get weird when the mother soon begins to believe an unexploded missile has carried evil spirits into her home and possessed her daughter.
Trace Thurman called Under the Shadow an “emotional and haunting film,” while Fred Topel declares Babak Anvari “a new voice in horror!”
Shot in Amman, Jordan, the film stars Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, and Arash Marandi.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Tehran, 1988: As the Iran-Iraq War rumbles into its eighth year, a mother and daughter are slowly torn apart by the bombing campaigns on the city coupled with the country’s bloody revolution. As they struggle to stay together amidst these terrors, a mysterious evil stalks through their apartment.”
