There is more than meets the eye going' on in the unconventional Iranian horror/thriller "Under the Shadow". One whole HELLUVA lot more.
The setting is a Tehran apartment house during the late stages of the nearly decade-long Iran-Iraq War of the 1980's. A woman and her eight-year-old daughter are all alone in the building, and are under the constant threat of bombing from Iraqi soldiers under the maniacal regime of Saddam Hussein. However, another threat looms within these walls which they are forced to contend with. One not as menacingly manifest as ballistic missile assaults, yet every bit as terrorizing.
What is this malevolent yet largely unseen entity that is making the girl mysteriously sick and is driving her mom to the brink of insanity? I came up with a host of theories based upon what we know of this era and these characters, and they were continuously materializing and morphing as this ominous story progressed. I won't share them here out of respect for "non-spoiling" it for anyone. I'm sure you will come up with your own conjecturing should you choose to go "Under the Shadow".
But be forewarned...it is NOT a comfy place to be.
The setting is a Tehran apartment house during the late stages of the nearly decade-long Iran-Iraq War of the 1980's. A woman and her eight-year-old daughter are all alone in the building, and are under the constant threat of bombing from Iraqi soldiers under the maniacal regime of Saddam Hussein. However, another threat looms within these walls which they are forced to contend with. One not as menacingly manifest as ballistic missile assaults, yet every bit as terrorizing.
What is this malevolent yet largely unseen entity that is making the girl mysteriously sick and is driving her mom to the brink of insanity? I came up with a host of theories based upon what we know of this era and these characters, and they were continuously materializing and morphing as this ominous story progressed. I won't share them here out of respect for "non-spoiling" it for anyone. I'm sure you will come up with your own conjecturing should you choose to go "Under the Shadow".
But be forewarned...it is NOT a comfy place to be.