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Best Directorial Debuts from 1921 until 2021“Since this movie was recently added to the book ‘1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die’, I was really eager to check it out. To be honest, I’m pretty sure that it will be one of these movies that they add every year but which end up being removed directly the year after or at least very soon. Anyway, I have to admit that it is not very often that you get to see a horror movie with so many layers. Indeed, there was first the fact that Iran, after the Islamic revolution, drastically changed and, since then, if someone would speak too loud about their opinion in this country, they could get into some real trouble, like the main character in this movie. As a result, many people would rather stay at home because they could then create their own free world with their own specific set of ” read more
Project #1 -1001 Movies I Must see Before I die- (1167 movies items)" Rating iMDB: My Rating: Director: Actors: Genre: The Plot:"
Watched in 2017
Movies Watched in 2017
Seen in 2017 (341 movies items)"This movie was really good until the CGI bedsheet started flying around.The movie is a slow one but it was still intersting enough to not bore you out of it. The setting was really great: a apartment building in Teheran during the war in 80's. "
the sacrifices of mothering in horror movies (5 movies items)"Focusing on a mother and daughter besieged by forces both worldly and otherwise in a Tehran apartment block, Under the Shadow presents a gripping portrait of an independently spirited woman shackled by sharia law who becomes more scared of the demonic forces tormenting her daughter than of the lashes threatened by her rulers or of fire falling from the sky. "
Movies the giraffe watched in 2017: January (30 movies items)"First viewing - Jan. 7th This is another film I've seen a fair amount of positive critical feedback on, and justifiably so. Babak Anvari delivers one hell of a debut film, ratcheting up the intensity to the point I was riveted to my seat. I highly recommend this one, especially if you're into suspenseful horror movies. Currently streaming on Netflix"
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Movies viewed in 2017 (338 movies items)"13/1/17 Superb horror drama set during the Iran-Iraq war and centring on a mother and her daughter trapped in a building that maybe haunted. Incredibly creepy which is effective in its chills while still being intelligent in its dealings with the emotions and horrors of the war around them. Highly recommended."
Movies watched in 2017
My Movie Diary 2016
89th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
From The Superb To The Crap - Movies Seen In 2016 (284 movies items)"The first ever horror movie from Iran and what a belter it is too. A woman and her young child live alone in an apartment in Tehran during the latter years of the Iran-Iraq War when the Iraqi regime were systematically firing missiles into the middle of large populated urban areas. Before long the bombs come crashing around them and just as this starts happening a strange malevolent supernatural force enters their home and begins to terrorise them also. It's a wonderful claustrophobic apartment"
My trips to the home (271 movies items)"UK RELEASE: September 30th 2016 HOW I SAW IT: iTunes WHEN I SAW IT: October 10th 2016"
Films Watched in 2016