Film
Under the Shadow
- Director
- Babak Anvari
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 84 mins
If A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night whetted your appetite for Iranian feminist arthouse crossover horror, you’re bound to enjoy this Farsi language Babadook-style spooker about a harassed mother protecting her nipper from a nasty supernatural entity.
The twist is that it unfolds in Tehran as bombs rain down at the height of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988. This is possibly the only film you’ll ever see that has much to say about the oppression of women in post-revolutionary Iran while simultaneously scaring the crap out of you. It’s back on screen as part of the ‘shed’s very welcome July Haunted Houses Sunday brunch season to complement the release of Hereditary.
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