Two of these shorts are great, and two of them are just pretty good. And it is totally worth your time.Īs with Tales of Halloween, an collection like this leads to some inconsistency. The Devil's CandyĪs that picture up there hints, XX is an anthology film of four short films by four women writer/directors.
It's not exactly a terrifying movie in a horror sense, but it's a terrifying movie in a real life sense. This great movie gives not only a sense of the panic that existed in this volatile time, but also shows the despair of a broken family, and the fear of what else may tear them apart. And it certainly doesn't help when a goddam djinn decides to haunt the hell out of them.
It doesn't help that her apartment tower is in the crosshairs of daily bombings. Just a few years after the Iranian Revolution was squashed by religious leaders, the main character has to hide her liberal tendencies and her anxieties about the modern world from everyone around her, including her daughter. Set in Iran's capital Tehran, a mother is left alone with her daughter as her husband is called to go fight on the front lines against Iraq. This harrowing conflict, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, cost the world about a half a million lives, and is the setting for this take on the haunted house movie.
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