Under the Shadow

Under the Shadow

  • Director: Babak Anvari
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar, Iran
  • Language: Persian
  • Release date: October 7, 2016
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Bóng Ma Trong Gió
  • Under the Shadow is a 2016 horror film directed by Babak Anvari starring Ahmed Gavadan, Narges Rashidi and Bobby Naderi.
    The film tells the story of a mother and daughter struggling to survive in the post-revolutionary war-torn Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, when an unknown evil force seems to have invaded their family.

    Details

    • Release date October 7, 2016
    • Filming locations Amman, Jordan
    • Production companies Wigwam Films, Doha Film Institute

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $31,900

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $13,565

    Gross worldwide

    $133,324

    Movie reviews

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    • By Emilia 2022-12-29 04:55:49

      Saying it's a "horror movie" makes me scream and laugh out loud...

      Say it, no bullshit.
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      It's just a political metaphor made by a pacifist who respects women's rights.
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      It is better to be a dog in the prosperous world than a person in a troubled world.
      ——I know that those young people who do not distinguish between the five grains, the four bodies are not diligent, worry about their bowels, and moan without a problem This sentence.
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      I just hope that the unreliable young literary...

    • By Claudie 2022-12-09 10:04:52

      "Under the Shadow" is not really a film review, just recording my mood

      Knowing that this drama is in a movie public account, the owner of the public account gave this movie the top 1 ranking of the horror movies I have seen so far.

      In pursuit of the numbness in my spine when I watched The Grudge when I was a child, I was afraid that I would not be able to sleep after thinking about it

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      My focus has stayed on. 1. The picture is beautiful. 2. The momentary obsessive-compulsive disorder when my mother washed the quilt and stuffed it...

    • By Carmine 2022-12-05 18:44:35

      after watching

      After watching it, it doesn't feel like a horror movie at all. To be honest, there are several scary points in the movie. I have no reaction at all! Instead, it feels like a war movie, and people live in the fear of war. It brought a lot of pressure to life, as can be seen in the dialogue between the mother taking her daughter to see the doctor in the film. The director beautifully expressed the fear and darkness brought about by the war in a religious way, without the use of a little blood,...

    • By Tyrese 2022-11-29 07:13:46

      Shadows are free

      The first time I wrote a movie review, I wrote and deleted it. I haven’t described it in words for a long time. I feel like I can’t start. Forgive me for being immune to foreign names.
      Every movie has a different mood. After watching this movie, I didn't know what it said at first, and I didn't understand the story until a few hours later.
      At the beginning of the story, I thought it was a war movie. After all, Iran, the first thing that came to my mind was war, a woman with a turban,...

    • By Rico 2022-11-25 04:51:48

      What the hell is a ghost~

      Accidentally saw a news, under the shadows is a recommended niche horror film in 2016, probably due to its special cultural background ~ Iran, the mysterious excess, combined with the background of the Iran-Iraq war, combined with horror-themed planting Enter, these alone are enough to recommend. The techniques in the film are quite different from traditional horror films, haunted houses, grudges, children, and a crisis of trust. This film seems to be mediocre in content, but every actor is...

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    • By Kelsie 2023-08-17 15:11:32

      I don't want to talk about the haze of war, I don't want to talk about political metaphors, and I don't want to talk about religious innuendo. I just want to say! cao! A toaster scares me to...

    • By Martin 2023-08-04 17:50:35

      A bread machine can scare people to death, the excuse used by the Iranian authorities to persecute women: "The most fear a woman should be is to expose...

    • By Jadon 2023-08-02 14:25:18

      Barely two points. The audio-visual performance is okay, and the background of the Iran-Iraq war is also convenient for layout, but the social and female perspectives are very shallow. The daughter insists on retrieving the doll and threatens the mother to prove her love for her. When the mother is living in her empty and haunted house, it's too damned a woman's brain, isn't it? It's...

    • By Kathleen 2023-06-28 16:41:46

      There are a few good designs but the whole thing is a bit boring, so that it feels a little bit like going back and watching those scenes. As a horror film, there is no problem with entraining private goods, but you should pay attention to the proportion and the way of speaking. This movie is too loud. It is better to pull it out and make it into a plot. The supernatural part is faked, and the plot of the father's line is strengthened or done at the beginning As a dark line, this kind of horror...

    • By Dana 2023-06-11 12:52:55

      6/10 It feels more appropriate to use a political thriller to shape Iran in the 70s, and the horror element is actually...