Two days ago Netflix made a splash by acquiring digital streaming rights, worldwide, to the farsi-language horror film Under the Shadow, written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Babak Anvari.
Netflix has a growing relationship with XYZ, which is why it’s not surprising that XYZ, also teaming with Vertical Entertainment, is getting behind the film’s VOD, digital HD and theatrical run.
The film is World Premiering at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Set in post-revolution Tehran, during the Iran-Iraq war, Under the Shadow 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.
Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Arash Marandi star.
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.”
Shot in Amman, Jordan, below is the first footage from the film in which the mother has a bad dream.
