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Title: Under the Shadow (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Narges Rashidi | ... | Shideh | |
| Avin Manshadi | ... | Dorsa | |
| Bobby Naderi | ... | Iraj | |
| Arash Marandi | ... | Dr. Reza | |
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Aram Ghasemy | ... | Mrs. Ebrahimi |
| Soussan Farrokhnia | ... | Mrs. Fakur | |
| Ray Haratian | ... | Mr. Ebrahimi | |
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Hamid Djavadan | ... | Mr. Fakur |
| Behi Djanati Atai | ... | Pargol | |
| Bijan Daneshmand | ... | Director | |
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Nabil Koni | ... | Mr. Bijari |
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Karam Rashayda | ... | Mehdi |
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Zainab Zamamiri | ... | Sogand |
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Khaled Zamamiri | ... | Ali |
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Adel Darageh | ... | Big Bellied Man |
In the 80's, during the war between the Islamic post-revolutionary Iran and Iraq, the former leftist medical student Shideh tries to return to the university but is barred by the dean. The upset Shideh returns home and when her husband Dr. Iraj is assigned to work in a war zone, she refuses to move to his parent's house with their daughter Dorsa. Shideh prefers to stay in her apartment with Dorsa, who loves her doll Kimia and has constant fever. Dorsa is afraid of demoniac Djinns and when Shideh asks who told her about the legend, she tells that her friend that lives downstairs. Shideh visits her neighbor and asks his mother to tell her son to not tell horror stories to Dorsa and she learns that the boy is mute. Then Kimia and Shideh's Jane Fonda workout tape disappear. When a missile strikes their building, the neighbors decide to leave Tehran, but Shideh stays in the apartment with Dorsa, who is increasingly disturbed. Soon Shideh reads about Djinns and finds that there is an evil ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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"Under the Shadow" was such a wonderful surprise for me. I had already read some reviews and everybody was speechless about it. I didn't really expect something THAT good when I started watching it.
The film takes place in Iran somewhere in the 80's when the Iran-Iraq war was on. Shideh and Dorsa, a mother and a daughter, find themselves "abandoned and unprotected" after the father has to leave in order to give his services as a doctor in the war zone. This is when they start realizing that something evil haunts them in their apartment, and there is not much they can do to escape since it's dangerous to leave their home.
Many compare it to 2014's "Babadook". I can see why but at the same time I don't see so many relations to each other. The only thing that I know is that there were moments that I seriously considered turning the lights on for a while... Sometimes the graphics were not that great, definitely not disappointing but seriously, I didn't mind at all. Narges Rashidi's acting is a huge plus for the movie as long as the direction.
Scary, touching, simple though powerful, "Under the Shadow" is a pleasant surprise not only for the horror genre but for cinema in general.