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The Night

Play trailer 1:25 Poster for The Night Released Jan 29, 2021 1h 45m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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After a night out with friends, an exhausted married couple, Babak (Shahab Hosseini), Neda (Niousha Noor) and their baby take shelter in the grand, but eerie Hotel Normandie. Throughout a seemingly endless night, mysterious disturbances ruin their night's rest as Babak and Neda soon realize they're locked-in with a malevolent force that hungers for the dark secrets they've kept from one another.
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The dramatic heft and dread of The Night delivers haunting psychological frights -- and an impressive feature directorial debut for Kourosh Ahari.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian It delivers a clammy shiver of disquiet. Rated: 4/5 Mar 30, 2021 Full Review Roxana Hadadi Pajiba The Night defies easy explanation. There's more lurking here, in the lies we tell ourselves and each other, that you should experience for yourself. Mar 21, 2021 Full Review Carlos Aguilar Los Angeles Times A goosebumps-inducing affair, "The Night" is at its most effectively unsettling when the focus is to evoke fear as opposed to when it physically shows what's haunting the characters trapped in their respective secret tragedies. Feb 22, 2021 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies Ahari uses every inch of his setting to immerse his audience and his characters in an atmosphere-rich environment and unloads in a final act full of chilling imagery and a steady feel of unease. Rated: 4/5 Aug 17, 2022 Full Review Danilo Castro Next Best Picture Overall, I'd say The Night is a very strong showcase for Kourosh Ahari. He has an intuition for staging and framing and a keen sense of timing that keeps the viewer off balance. Rated: 7/10 May 17, 2022 Full Review Ernesto Diezmartinez Cine Vértigo Although the story is quite derivative - and surely the "fault" of the woman will raise the eyebrows of any feminist in the audience - the truth is that the director Ahari delivers a very effective horror film. Rated: 2/4 Oct 3, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Korra N Working better as a drama with very few scares, The Night is a bad horror film but a solid thriller that's worth a watch for great acting and some beautifully composed shots. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/06/24 Full Review Mahdi T Overall, the movie was excellent in portraying thriller, drama, and mystery themes. However, it did not meet my expectations in terms of horror. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/11/24 Full Review Diamond W There is something fishy about all of the professional reviews of this movie. They all basically say the movie is technically great even though it is illogical and meaningless, and has a weak narrative to boot. I would need three more pairs of hands and feet to count up all of the movies off the top of my head that are more visual, clever and entertaining than this one, and all of them have lower ratings (go figure). The technical achievements of this film are strictly adequate, the standard techniques of the genre. This movie raises vague issues and then drops them just as quickly. (The desk clerk rattles off all of the high profile atrocities he's seen and then disappears from the story. Why? Why is there a "magical negro" mumbling his way through each act? Why does a policeman show up with a doppelganger, ask to hold a baby, and then vanish?) The ultimate revelations are not shocking and not even all that interesting. I thought I might have missed something, but after reading all of the positive reviews, they convinced me that there was nothing there to miss. An empty, mundane masterpiece of some sort. Oh well... Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/15/23 Full Review wesley c This is one of those films full of nuances that, in general, does not satisfy the taste of those who are more hasty or those who understand cinema only as banal entertainment. The nuances of this film make us think, raising our level of abstraction in an effort to understand ourselves, our fears, anxieties, afflictions and secrets, which at certain moments torment us so much. The construction of the film shows this drama. Trapped in a parallel world, they would only leave when they faced their own demons. This is what suggests what appears to be a Jinn (a figure from Islamic mythology) who questions them at the hotel entrance. Furthermore, the consequences of ignoring what ails us can lead us into a spiral of self-deception that, in the end, will keep us trapped in this parallel world, that is, ourselves. Forever. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/14/23 Full Review Ricardo d Impressionante é que a crítica tenha gostado. Está certo que o filme segue uma cadência bem peculiar a sua cultura, mas é 1h45 minutos de um giro que não sai do lugar. Logo no início é mostrado um quadro de uma pessoa que não consegue ver seu rosto no reflexo do espelho; bom, o roteiro, é como se quem escreveu achou lindo o quadro e resolvesse fazer um filme que se agregasse ao quadro, e não o contrário. Pontos positivos: a ambientação e iluminação, e personagens de etnias não costumeiras a se ver em filmes de terror. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/26/23 Full Review Hugo S A couple is trapped inside a haunted hotel. "The Night" is a sophisticated examination of the couple's inner demons. Nothing is what it seems. Check out from this hotel room if you can! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis After a night out with friends, an exhausted married couple, Babak (Shahab Hosseini), Neda (Niousha Noor) and their baby take shelter in the grand, but eerie Hotel Normandie. Throughout a seemingly endless night, mysterious disturbances ruin their night's rest as Babak and Neda soon realize they're locked-in with a malevolent force that hungers for the dark secrets they've kept from one another.
Director
Kourosh Ahari
Producer
Alex Bretow, Kourosh Ahari, Jeffrey Allard, Cheryl Dillard Staurulakis, Armin Amiri, Mohammad Dormanesh
Screenwriter
Milad Jarmooz, Kourosh Ahari
Distributor
IFC Midnight
Production Co
SuperNova8 Films, 7Skies Entertainment, Mammoth Pictures, Orama Filmworks, Indie Entertainment, Leveller Media
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Persian
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 29, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 29, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA)
$26.1K
Runtime
1h 45m
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