curated cinema: home is where the ill wind blows
curated cinema: home is where the ill wind blows
2016’s *Under the Shadow* is on Netflix (and lots of other services) on both sides of the Atlantic
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In a similar vein to The Babadook, my curated-cinema pick yesterday, 2016’s Under the Shadow sees a mother and child under siege from the supernatural in their own home. They’re living in Tehran under the strictures of the Islamic revolution and amidst the long Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and evil djinn, malevolent spirits, have arrived along with the unexploded missile that has landed in their apartment building.
British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Anvari made a stunning feature debut with this deeply creepy movie, weaving a sinister tapestry of urban unease and feminist fury that turns an ordinary domestic setting into a place of skulking terror. This is as fresh and as exhilarating as horror movies come.
US: stream on Netflix; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: stream on Netflix; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
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