The latest in our series of writers highlighting underseen gems is a recommendation for a scary and substantial Iranian horror
Do you find masking tape scary? Most people don’t. But then most people haven’t seen Under the Shadow.
In Babak Anvari’s 2016 horror film, masking tape fortifies windows from
missile blasts, seals over cracks in walls and ceilings damaged by bombing, and sticks together the objects destroyed by a supernatural creature haunting the mother and daughter trapped in the middle of it all. It’s their pathetically fragile defence against all the terrors of the world.