SPOILER WARNING
Sometimes parents should listen to their kids, especially when they claim they may be seeing something.
For a PG-13 movie, Under The Shadow (2016), sure knows how to build suspense. Although it is not as frightening as other ghost movies, it still has its fair share of jumpscares.
The movie takes place during the Iran-Iraq War, which dates back to 1980. The storyline focuses on a mother who is facing her struggles, especially when she is not able to pursue a profession in becoming a doctor. She feels that she has failed and that she is not in the right place, especially being stuck at home and raising her daughter. It does not help when she is left alone with her daughter because her husband is drafted to fight in the current war. Whilst her husband is away, her neighbors all start to leave one by one for their safety, whilst she remains, up until she realizes she is being haunted. All whilst dealing with that, she also has to face the struggles of being a woman in Iran, which is shown throughout the film.
Nonetheless, one can see the character development within the mother when she finally realizes that whatever her daughter is seeing, which ends up being the djinns, is essentially real, but only once she can see them herself. The buildup of this, dragged, however, it eventually got to the point.
The movie did a good job of showing how chaos ends up taking over. Their whole apartment ends up being destroyed whilst they look for this doll so that they can finally leave without continuing to be haunted. The messiness only explains the chaos that is constantly erupting, whether it be between the mother and daughter and their relationship, the djinns messing with them, the mother not knowing what is truly going on, etc.
Additionally, for the movie to end on such a cliffhanger, where the spirit may still end up being attached to the daughter due to the head of the doll being unattached and left at their apartment building, is nerve-wracking, especially when thinking they were finally able to escape.
All in all, the movie was worth a watch. Although it was not as crazy as some of the ghost movies today, it still has its impact.
Sometimes parents should listen to their kids, especially when they claim they may be seeing something.
For a PG-13 movie, Under The Shadow (2016), sure knows how to build suspense. Although it is not as frightening as other ghost movies, it still has its fair share of jumpscares.
The movie takes place during the Iran-Iraq War, which dates back to 1980. The storyline focuses on a mother who is facing her struggles, especially when she is not able to pursue a profession in becoming a doctor. She feels that she has failed and that she is not in the right place, especially being stuck at home and raising her daughter. It does not help when she is left alone with her daughter because her husband is drafted to fight in the current war. Whilst her husband is away, her neighbors all start to leave one by one for their safety, whilst she remains, up until she realizes she is being haunted. All whilst dealing with that, she also has to face the struggles of being a woman in Iran, which is shown throughout the film.
Nonetheless, one can see the character development within the mother when she finally realizes that whatever her daughter is seeing, which ends up being the djinns, is essentially real, but only once she can see them herself. The buildup of this, dragged, however, it eventually got to the point.
The movie did a good job of showing how chaos ends up taking over. Their whole apartment ends up being destroyed whilst they look for this doll so that they can finally leave without continuing to be haunted. The messiness only explains the chaos that is constantly erupting, whether it be between the mother and daughter and their relationship, the djinns messing with them, the mother not knowing what is truly going on, etc.
Additionally, for the movie to end on such a cliffhanger, where the spirit may still end up being attached to the daughter due to the head of the doll being unattached and left at their apartment building, is nerve-wracking, especially when thinking they were finally able to escape.
All in all, the movie was worth a watch. Although it was not as crazy as some of the ghost movies today, it still has its impact.