Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow explores the horrors of living as a woman within a war-torn Tehran during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. Ghouls educate on the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the power of having a flawed female protagonist in a tyrannical and oppressive regime.
Sources in episode:
Babak Anvari interview: Under The Shadow, horror, Statham
Terror in Tehran: Under the Shadow and the Politics of Horror
Iranian Revolution
Under The Shadow is a Babadook for War-Torn Iran
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