Trailer: Enter Hellish Hotel of Horror When THE NIGHT Arrives January 29th
Josh Millican
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From the executive producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Night is an upcoming horror movie telling the story of a young Iranian family living in the US. It’s the directorial debut from Iranian filmmaker Kourosh Ahari and is the first US-produced film to receive distribution in Iran in four decades.
Check out the trailer and synopsis and read more about The Night below.
Synopsis:
Following a tense night out with friends, Babak (played masterfully by Iranian superstar Shabab Hossein, winner of Best Actor at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival), Neda (Niousha Jafarian), and their infant daughter find themselves spending the night in a hotel. As a malevolent energy torments the family, Babak and Neda’s deeply guarded secrets are summoned from their dark hiding places. The Night will not end until they confront the truth within themselves.
IFC Midnight will release The Night on Friday, January 29th, 2021 in select theatres and on digital and VOD platforms.
Director’s Statement:
Throughout Iran’s cinema history, the horror genre has never been celebrated as a new horizon to craft unique original narratives that satisfy the desire of its large audience. As a psychological horror genre fan myself, I always craved to see an elevated horror in Farsi, deeply grounded in real life. Blessed to find myself in the art, I decided to explore the genre and welcome the challenge of creating one.
The Night is a brew of my fascination with human psychology married with my curiosity of an unknown world, which we all may have experienced one way or the other. Our story approaches a very complex yet common human condition, the fear of our darkest secrets being revealed. My co-writer, Milad Jarmooz and I decided to elevate this often buried fear of human beings to the surface and shape it as the driving force of terror in our story. The Night at its core is a psychological thriller that gradually dives into the world of horror as the secrets of its two main characters are permitted to come out of hiding and take form, confining the couple with their one-year-old in an eerie old hotel. The Night will not end until they confront the truth within themselves.
The story and themes of The Night are profoundly universal and current, allowing the audience to instantaneously relate to the movie. Although the language spoken in The Night is primarily Farsi, the dominating visual storytelling dimension allows you to overcome the subtitles and become absorbed in the film. While you might find resemblance to some of the iconic horror genre films, throughout the development of the story, we kept reminding ourselves that the legends had already mastered the haunted hotel story. We are greatly inspired by them, nonetheless, we are not in the attempt of walking the same path, so don’t let this creepy hotel fool you; look for the signs and pay attention to everything. That’s not to say, you wouldn’t feel like not wanting to stay at a hotel after viewing The Night.
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