Alee Badshah (tigertahir) I am a fan of horror and every time if there is a good horror movie I'm in for it and especially if it is an art house horror. Not too far just a month ago I saw The Babadook and I was like this is the best horror movie by far. But now after watching under the shadow I'm forced to change my mind. This is the best horror movie I have seen to date.So the movie takes place during the Iran Iraq war. There is a family a husband, wife and their only daughter. Their daughter she is afraid of jinns (ghosts). And husband is a doctor. This woman who is playing the lead she is very free-living women she has a VCR at home she is doing exercises in morning wearing jeans and tops, she is not wearing the outfit that every other Iranian women is. So then her husband is transferred to another city which is right in the middle of War so he has to go there but he do not take them with him because it's not safe. Now this woman is living alone and she has to take care of her daughter on her own now. And thing starts to get worse as by the time it's not just daughter anymore she herself is seeing things now.So what makes Under The Shadow a stand out among the rest? Well it's pretty much everything. So this is not just a movie about some Supernatural stuff going on, it's way more than that. Story of the film takes place in the time when there was Iran Iraq war going on, and that makes the atmosphere of the film more intense. In the film people are doing their normal stuff and suddenly there is a blast somewhere around and that shakes you from the core. its hard to believe that it's Babak Anvari's first film. Settings he used in film the camera angles the sound design the framing it seem like he is the master of horror.There is one scene in the movie when the woman who is playing the lead she is lying on the bed and camera angle is tilt and then she gets up and now she is sitting on the bed and that tilt camera moves with her and now the camera angle is straight and then the camera moves slightly to left and her daughter is standing next to her bed. This was really very well done.Editing of the movie is really good this is not a really long movie it's just 80-85 minutes long and that's perfect. Pacing of the movie is more than perfect you won't be bored for a single second it will grip you from the start and will not leave you until it's over.

Morten_5 With a perfect, harrowing blend of psychological drama and horror, set in 80's war-torn Tehran, British-Iranian writer-director Babak Anvari delivers a staggering feature debut. A British-Iranian-Jordanian-Qatari co-production, it was shot in Amman, Jordan.Letterboxd: Mårten Larsson (Morten_RHK).

redxcat so after all the good reviews i thought i would give it ago while home along as my partner doesn't like horrors and even more so if subtitled. well it was dubbed so i really wondering if that was my problem as the actress they got to do the mothers voice was worse than an old style lybrivox recording. you always lose a lot when dubbed way more than subtitle but OMG get some talent to do it. A 90 year old Catholic priest could have put more flare into the voice acting than this woman. still that aside i just could keep watching it was so boring. And yes I'll admit i turned it off after 20 min but looking at the other bad reviews I'm glad i did. I watch everything horror but this didn't seem like it was going anywhere scary and the mother even without the voice over of a board old nun with coffee breath is so unlikable.bitch to her husband a horrible mother to her child, as said i didn't get to far in but she probably deserved it and maybe if she was nicer ghosts would want to mess with her. If your looking for a good other language horror/thriller there are far better out there. just switched to "The Wailing" on Netflix also already 100% better and I'm only 12 minutes in.

kosmasp Some may argue that this could easily be just a great drama. And they would not be that wrong. It also begins on a thin line with its main female character. It was borderline to me getting completely annoyed by her. And that would not help the cause of the movie. But it was just there to set up the character and some of the things that do happen during the course of the movie.But the movie does get of after a bumpy start (if you see it like me). And after that the ride you are taking, is really taking you places. Pure horror and many scenes that will freeze you to the bone. It's psychological and it does things to your mind you may not expect it to do. Having said that, you have to be open minded to many things. Still this is very well written and it's one of the best horror movies in the last decade