Sundance 2016: Netflix Picks up Iranian Horror Flick UNDER THE SHADOW

Although Sundance is just getting started, news of films getting picked up for distribution has already begun with Variety reporting that Netflix has acquired the streaming rights to Babak Anvari‘s horror film Under the Shadow. The film will be premiering tonight at midnight as part of the Midnight programming and the deal was brokered by the always wonderful XYZ Films.

Here’s the synopsis from Sundance:

In 1988 Tehran, Shideh’s attempts to rejoin medical school after getting married and having daughter Dorsa are thwarted as a consequence of her politically active history. Her husband is sent off to serve in the Iran-Iraq War while Iraqi air raids draw perilously close to their own apartment. As she is left alone with Dorsa after neighbors and friends flee from a city in chaos, her daughter becomes increasingly ill and seemingly disturbed. Shideh initially dismisses Dorsa’s tantrums over a missing doll, but she reluctantly comes to suspect that they’ve been targeted by djinn–malevolent spirits that steal from those they seek to possess.