After surviving
a fatal crash,
a father becomes a stranger to his family…
This isn’t a possession.
There’s no demon.
No ghost.
...With his family slipping away,
And the walls closing in,
Curt has to face the truth:
the monster isnt coming...
THE MONSTER
IS ALREADY HERE!
WHY NOW
The world is still limping forward, carrying grief it hasn’t fully named. We bury things to survive (anger, shame, fear) and sometimes they don’t stay buried. SHADOW lives in that space, where the silence gets loud and the parts of ourselves we’ve locked away start knocking on the door.
This is a story about repressed rage, inherited violence, and the cost of emotional quiet. It speaks to something primal and disturbingly familiar what happens when a man spends his whole life holding it together, only to crack all at once.
Audiences are no longer afraid of horror that hits too close. Hereditary and The Babadook taught us that the scariest hauntings aren’t about ghosts.
They’re about grief.
About guilt.
About not recognizing yourself
in the mirror.
THOSE BEHIND THE CURTAINS
Mike Doyle
WRITER
He writes like something’s watching, every word a step deeper into the dark, every line a crack in the mirror, until what’s staring back isn’t a character… it’s you.
Benjamin
Howdeshell
DIRECTOR
He sees the fracture before it spreads, the tension behind the eyes, the silence before the scream, and he builds worlds where fear doesn’t chase you, it becomes you.
Taraneh
Golozar
PRODUCER
She doesn’t just manage the chaos, she knows how to shape it, contain it, and turn it into something that stays with you long after the credits fade.
Get to know the shadows behind
the curtain.
With SHADOW, I set out to explore how deeply personal horror can be how trauma, guilt, and anger aren’t just themes, but living forces that shape identity. At the heart of the film is Curt Finn, a father and husband who is haunted by a past he can’t quite grasp and emotions he’s never been able to contain. The story examines how unchecked anger, when buried or ignored, doesn’t just disappear, it festers, mutates, and eventually finds its way out, often in frightening and destructive ways. Horror, to me, is most effective when it reflects something very real, and there’s nothing more terrifying than recognizing the monster as something that was inside you all along.
- FROM 'BENJAMIN HOWDESHELL'
FROM THE INSIDE OUT
