Babak Anvari

A found phone troubles Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson in Wounds trailer

Posted 7 years ago

Writer/director Babak Anvari caught a lot of positive attention with his feature directorial debut UNDER THE SHADOW, a supernatural horror film that was set in 1980s Tehran, during the Iran–Iraq War. A few years have passed and now Anvari is...

Wounds trailer finds Armie Hammer dealing with one nasty cell phone

Posted 7 years ago

 In the new movie WOUNDS, Armie Hammer plays a New Orleans bartender who picks up a phone left behind by a group of college students, and naturally, begins rooting through it. But soon he realizes that this is no ordinary...

Under the Shadow director Babak Anvari signs on for Departure

Posted 7 years ago

With his 2016 feature debut UNDER THE SHADOW (pictured above), director Babak Anvari emerged as a filmmaker worth keeping an eye on. His second feature, WOUNDS, hasn't been as well received (own our Chris Bumbray gave UNDER THE SHADOW a...

Review: Wounds (Sundance)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Will (Armie Hammer), a New Orleans bartender, witnesses an act of violence that sends him down a rabbit hole of discovery, putting his very sanity, and that of his girlfriend, Carrie (Dakota Johnson), on the line. REVIEW: WOUNDS, which...

Under The Shadow director’s new thriller adds Dakota Johnson & Armie Hammer

Posted 8 years ago

One of the best foreign horror films of the past few years has been Iranian writer-director Babak Anvari's UNDER THE SHADOW. Creepy, timely, and above all scary as all hell, that film is a must-see if you've somehow missed it....

Under The Shadow (Movie Review)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: An unhappily bereaving mother in war-torn Tehran must protect her young daughter from a deleterious Djinn that has infiltrated their home. REVIEW: Featured two months ago on our list of Most Anticipated Genre Flicks to see this autumn, all...

Djinn are real in this clip from Farsi fright flick Under the Shadow

Posted 10 years ago

The British-produced, Farsi-language flick UNDER THE SHADOW has been receiving ecstatic buzz from the festival circuit, and we have a brand new clip to share with you! It's a low key clip showing a conversation between a mother and daughter, but...

Trailer emerges for Farsi-language horror film Under the Shadow

Posted 10 years ago

The Farsi-language horror film UNDER THE SHADOW, which our own Chris Bumbray gave a 9/10 review after catching it at Sundance, is set to receive a theatrical and VOD release from Vertical Entertainment and XYZ Films on October 7th, and...

English-language remake planned for Under the Shadow

Posted 10 years ago

Babak Anvari's feature directorial debut, the Farsi-language horror film UNDER THE SHADOW, just made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. Less than four months later, London-based Wigwam Films, who produced and financed Anvari's film, and...

Farsi-language horror film Under the Shadow acquired by Netflix

Posted 10 years ago

The Sundance Film Festival has only just begun, but Netflix has already bought up the worldwide streaming rights to several films, among them the Farsi-language horror movie UNDER THE SHADOW. The feature debut of writer/director Babak Anvari, UNDER THE SHADOW...

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