Under the Shadow
“Fear will find you.”
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
This film delivers a potent blend of creeping dread and suffocating tension. It's a masterclass in atmospheric horror, where the external anxieties of war merge with ancient, malevolent forces. The experience is unsettling and deeply psychological, a slow-burn descent into a mother's desperate fight for her child amidst overwhelming oppression.
