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Zalava
Directed by
Arsalan Amiri
2021
1h 34m
Drama
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Horror
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6.1
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In 1978, the inhabitants of Zalava, a small village in Iran, claim that there is a demon among them. While investigating the strange case, Massoud, a young police sergeant, crosses paths with an exorcist.
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Cast of Zalava
Navid Pourfaraj
Massoud
Pouria Rahimi Sam
Amardan
Hoda Zeinolabedin
Maliheh
Fereydoun Hamedi
A'Mousa
Shahoo Rostami
Khalaj
Baset Rezaei
Younes
Saleh Rahimi
A'Latif
Zahed Zandi
Amini
Mahsa Hejazi
Khalaj's daughter
Arsalan Amiri
Director / Writer
Ida Panahandeh
Writer
Tahmineh Bahram
Writer
Rouhollah Baradari
Producer
Samira Baradari
Producer
Zalava Ratings & Reviews
FirstShowing.net
Alex Billington
Holy hell I'm glad I didn't read anything about this before, because it's a thrilling experience to discover exactly how they have crafted a brilliant Schrödinger's cat horror about a demonic force.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
With the exception of the romantic part, "Zalava" is an excellent in all aspects film, a testament to both Amiri's prowess and the level of Iranian cinema overall.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Pourfaraj is superb in the lead, his Massoud stiff-backed, primly moustached, yet achingly human.
Tilt Magazine
Christopher Cross
Zalavas horror trappings build the foundations of a tense rivalry between order and chaos.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
[Amiri] has mashed together a story of demonic possession and romance with devilishly dark satire ... The director takes chances that pay off.
Film Inquiry
Kristy Strouse
Arsalan Amiri is skilled in his direction, aiming for less is more, and allegory over sensationalism. It's an unexpected, but gripping take on the genre.
Dread Central
Drew Tinnin
For all the horror titles sucking up most of the air right now, Zalava is a mini-masterpiece that you should keep on your radar.
The Film Stage
Jared Mobarak
Zalava is a satirical take on mob mentality and the circles those caught under its spell will run to prove the most insane explanation for any given event is the sanest.
Nightmare on Film Street
Jonathan DeHaan
Zalava is not the boom-pow demon-fest some of your favourite exorcism movies may be, but it is one hell of a character study about mass hysteria and the nature of belief.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
[Director Arsalan Amiri] shoots his film with striking confidence, getting a lot of mileage out of strange framing, forced POV, shadows, and, yes, close-ups of a terrifying glass jar.
Vanyaland
Nick Johnston
Zalava, an Iranian horror film about the terror of the crowd and the conflict between the rational and the supernatural, is... a story that many of us are familiar with, but created and expressed in a way that makes it feel genuinely novel.
The Hollywood Reporter
Keith Uhlich
Dull and deadening, even at a brief 93 minutes.
But Why Tho? A Geek Community
Ricardo Gallegos
Director Arsalan Amiri plays with your beliefs and perceptions to craft a metaphysical narrative that delves into the role of tradition in a community.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
Whether or not there's a curse in Zalava may be an open question, but the film itself casts a spell.
ianthomasmalone.com
Ian Thomas Malone
Amiri has such fun with ambiguity, a delectably subtle treatise on the power of paranoia that relies on a glass jar as its foremost antagonist.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
An intensely eerie and atmospheric curio.
Variety
Alissa Simon
While the film can be appreciated simply as something new in Iranian genre cinema, the allegorical content is even more fascinating.
Film Threat
Swapnil Dhruv Bose
Unfortunately, it loses the power of its vision as well as its momentum because of extended melodramatic indulgences that contribute nothing.
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