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In Flames

Play trailer 1:49 Poster for In Flames Released Apr 12, 2024 1h 38m Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter's precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
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Conjuring fear with its sense of encroaching unease instead of cathartic jolts, In Flames is an exemplary horror film with something profound to say about the oppression of women.

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Tara Brady Irish Times The many textures and mysteries don’t always fit together. Indeed, the movie is better when it trades in real-world patriarchal controls and abuses rather than things that go bump in the night. Rated: 3/5 Jul 13, 2024 Full Review Mark Kermode Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube) Riveting central performances. May 30, 2024 Full Review Wendy Ide Observer (UK) In Flames raids the box of generic horror tropes but fails to generate any notable scares. Instead, Pakistani-Canadian director Zarrar Kahn’s feature debut musters a vaguely brooding sense of unease. Rated: 3/5 May 29, 2024 Full Review Kevin Wight The Wee Review The themes of <i>In Flames</i> are stark and blunt, the execution anything but. It’s a slippery and hallucinatory experience that never lets its ghostly trappings overpower the very real dangers it depicts. Rated: 4 Sep 4, 2024 Full Review Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana What a Scream Podcast In Flames is a compelling portrayal of the lives of Pakistani women and the ghosts that haunt them in a male-driven society. Rated: 4/5 Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Jericho Tadeo MovieWeb While In Flames fulfills its promise of thrills, it also offers a story brimming with heart. Rated: 4.5/5 Jul 12, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Claudio C In Flames (2023) One Movie That Should Have Never Been Made (11,697 –16 May 2025 – by Claudio Carvalho) There are movies that should have never been made; the Pakistani Canadian “In Flames” (2023) is one of them. The storyline and the screenplay are completely messy and do not make any sense. The obnoxious characters are unlikable: Mariam is a twenty-five-year-old student apparently completing high school and preparing for medical school. However, she is a weird woman that left her date Asad dead on the road and only days later she looked for him at the hospital. And naïve, believing that Saleem is driving her to several places without any dark intention. Her brother Bilal is playing video games and watching television all the time, including in the funeral of his father (or grandfather?). Her mother Fariha is a clueless woman, signing documents for her estranged brother-in-law. Uncle Nasir is the worst character in the story, betraying his sister-in-law, nephew and niece. The locations are awful, showing the city of Karachi maybe in the poorest places. Last but not the least, their society is one of the most oppressive shown in a feature. The acting and the cinematography are very poor. My only question is how producers sponsored this movie. My vote is two. Title (Brazil): “Em Chamas” (“In Flames”) My Blog: https://maniacosporfilme.wordpress.com/ Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/17/25 Full Review Aldis H This is called a horror movie, but the horror elements don't track. They're just tropes tossed in completely undeveloped and not scary. The social commentary stuff is pretty cool, and the movie redeems itself somewhat at the end, but in the meantime it's abysmally slow. There is maybe 25 minutes of story stretched to the crisp blackened endings of its life. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/25 Full Review Dany C It delivers nothing it promisses. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/05/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter's precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
Director
Zarrar Kahn
Producer
Anam Abbas, Zarrar Kahn
Screenwriter
Zarrar Kahn
Distributor
Game Theory Films
Production Co
CityLights Media, XYZ Films, Other Memory Media, Fae Pictures
Genre
Horror
Original Language
Urdu
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 12, 2024, Limited
Runtime
1h 38m
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