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  • 2021
  • Hulu
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2021
  • Hulu
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary 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 ...

Directed By: Kourosh Ahari

Written By: Milad Jarmooz, Kourosh Ahari

  • 2021
  • Hulu
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2021
  • Hulu
  • 1 h 45 m

The Night

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
5.8
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Summary 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 ...

Directed By: Kourosh Ahari

Written By: Milad Jarmooz, Kourosh Ahari

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
68
90% Positive
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
68
90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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88
Jan 29, 2021
Kourosh Ahari's The Night, about a couple confronting their personal demons in a haunted hotel, is a knockout debut feature—so assured that it stands on its own as a filmmaking achievement apart from its historical significance, which is considerable.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 29, 2020
Featuring excellent performances by Shahab Hosseini (“A Separation,” “The Salesman”) and Niousha Jafarian (“Here and Now”) as a married couple with a baby daughter and a frayed relationship, this predominantly Farsi-language production sneaks up on viewers and delivers a knockout final act.
By Richard Kuipers FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 29, 2021
The expert cinematic stylization on display proves ample reason to forgive The Night for any narrative shortcomings.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
67
Jan 28, 2021
It's a slow build to collapse, escaping the traditional trap of such supernatural suspense films in that both of them have secrets, and it's not the acts themselves but the deceits that have led them to this place.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW
67
Jan 28, 2021
As a journey inward into the roiling waves of memory and regret, Ahari fulfills his promise with an unapologetic air of penance and disgrace. That its success happens despite his exploitation of Neda as a character and woman doesn’t, however, negate that egregious misstep. And the latter being highly triggering unfortunately renders any blind recommendation of the former a reckless proposition.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
63
Jan 25, 2021
It’s at the juncture between horror and philosophical surrealism that Kourosh Ahari’s film is at its most provocative.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 28, 2021
The repetition of the visions and the film’s deliberate pace gives the audience too much time to guess which betrayals haunt Babak and Neda, and this lack of emotional suspense hampers the horror.
By Teo Bugbee FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
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33% Negative
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Production Company Mammoth Pictures, Indie Entertainment, Orama Filmworks, 7Skies Entertainment, Leveller Media, SuperNova8 Films
Release Date Jan 29, 2021
Duration 1 h 45 m
Genres
Tagline The Night it never end.
Website https://www.facebook.com/thenightthemovie
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Awards

Molins Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Grimmfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
ReFrame
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