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THE NIGHT Review: Trippy Terror at the Hotel By Chad Collins
Written by Kourosh Ahari and Milad Jarmooz
Directed by Kourosh Ahari
“They hear the truth, morning comes” a malevolent drifter whispers to Neda Naderi (Noousha Noor) midway through
The Night, Kourosh Ahari’s auspicious Iranian-American genre debut. Neda and her husband Babek (Shahab Hosseini) are en route to their home when an auto accident, Babek’s insobriety, and the imbroglio of downtown Los Angeles compel them to pull the car over and rent a room for the night. Things quickly spiral as the Naderis, including their infant daughter, are plagued by specters in the dark, an ever-changing urban landscape, and a morning that defiantly, hauntingly refuses to come. Punctuated by paranoid shades of Kubrick’s
Deriving its visceral scares not from grisly imagery but rather psychological eeriness like a knock on the door in the early morning hours or a disembodied whisper that raises the hairs on the back of your neck director Kourosh Ahari’s consistently terrifying new feature “The Night” follows an Iranian couple wrestling with unresolved marital conflicts in the U.S.
Marking his debut in an American production, actor Shahab Hosseini (“A Separation,” “The Salesman”) plays obstinate husband and father Babak. As he drives home with his wife, Neda (Niousha Jafarian), and their infant daughter following an evening with friends, a pulsating toothache immobilizes him. Inexplicable occurrences soon lead them to check into an empty old hotel where supernatural torment ensues.
The truth shall set you free is the simple key to
The Night, an intriguing and groundbreaking supernatural thriller that traps a married couple, Babak (Hosseini) and Neda (Noor), in a mysterious hotel that doesn t seem to want to let them leave.
Where
The Night is a landmark is in its production history: the first American-made film to be licensed for release in Iran since the 1979 revolution. Shot in the U.S., and filmed and performed primarily in Farsi by a cast and crew predominantly of Iranian migrants and American citizens of Iranian descent, the weight of being an expat hangs on every moment of