Fiction Film, 75 min
2017
The idea for this film emerged during an informal gathering among filmmaker friends who, in a state of intoxicated enthusiasm, were recounting their favorite horror films. The proposal to turn these conversations into a film became the starting point of the project.
The group traveled to a rural house in northern Iran to film over the course of a single night. There, a narrative framework was decided: a group of friends on a journey are forced to stop due to a closed road and arrive at a house belonging to a relative.
The lights are on and beds are prepared, yet no one is present. They choose to wait outside. As the night deepens, their conversation turns toward frightening atmospheres, memories of fear, and horror cinema.
The film assembles all the signs of an impending frightening situation, yet withholds its realization. Genre expectation is activated — anticipation builds — but no event occurs. What remains is not an incident, but a condition of waiting.
Fear here is not presented as a psychological emotion, but as a narrative and perceptual mechanism, emerging between darkness, speech, cinematic memory, and suspense. Rather than producing horror, the film exposes the machinery through which horror is produced.