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What Is Buried Must Remain

  • 2022
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
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What Is Buried Must Remain (2022)
Set in present-day Lebanon, What Is Buried Must Remainis a modern ghost story with ancient roots. When three young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a French industrialist, accused of murdering his family, they are confronted by supernatural forces engaged in a war for the very soul of the land.
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When a group of young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a haunted house, they encounter otherworldly forces engaged in an ancient war for the soul of the land.When a group of young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a haunted house, they encounter otherworldly forces engaged in an ancient war for the soul of the land.When a group of young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a haunted house, they encounter otherworldly forces engaged in an ancient war for the soul of the land.

  • Director
    • Elias Matar
  • Writers
    • Elias Matar
    • Edward E. Romero
    • Israa Samman
  • Stars
    • Dahlia Nemlich
    • Khald Rdeini
    • Hamza Zahab
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.8/10
    101
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Elias Matar
    • Writers
      • Elias Matar
      • Edward E. Romero
      • Israa Samman
    • Stars
      • Dahlia Nemlich
      • Khald Rdeini
      • Hamza Zahab
    • 2User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Dahlia Nemlich
    • Mariam Fontaine
    Khald Rdeini
    • Tax Driver
    Hamza Zahab
    • Shadi
    Hassan Alkhlefe
    • Alaa Alshawi
    Ahmad Alrefai
    • Abdallah
    Ahmad Dalati
    • Dead man
    Elie Cortine
    • Henry Fontaine
    Ahmad Khreta
    • Majd
    Young Syrian Filmmakers
    Farouk Zaroura
    • Al Badawi
    Asma Jumaa
    • Lara
    • (as Asthma Jumaa)
    Nour Al Zahab
    • Leli Fontaine
    • Director
      • Elias Matar
    • Writers
      • Elias Matar
      • Edward E. Romero
      • Israa Samman
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    7kannibalcorpsegrinder

    A generally likable and enjoyable found-footage effort

    Preparing to shoot a documentary, a woman films herself and her friends looking through a supposedly abandoned house on the outskirts of their Palestine settlement camp, but the more they stay there the more they start to succumb to the ghostly forces within the house controlling them and must get out before it's too late.

    Overall, this was a pretty fun found-footage effort. Among the better efforts here is a traditional setup that's usually found in this type of found-footage feature in the setup of the investigations. Initially bringing the group together and getting an idea of the backstory of the house they're choosing to visit, which provides the expected troubled past backstory of a strange disappearance and recurring problems in the years since, this drops everything into a solid and workable starting point. Even the usually expected setup for the group filming when they arrive at the location and get started with their usual preambles to the show getting all the information revealed and what their intentions are lets this get going in an expected and generally enjoyable manner. This all turns the film into a solid and enjoyable outing once the more overt supernatural shenanigans occur. After initially finding themselves stranded and cut off from the rest of the community, the way they approach their investigations is quite familiar if still fun where they go around either individually or as a group investigating decrepit, abandoned rooms filled with strange markings and designs all over. The idea of doing these scenes as a means of introducing the topical political climate and observations on that as metaphors for the ghostly actions is quite nice and leads to some genuinely thrilling moments in the second half and into the finale where the encounters start to become more threatening and involve some bigger scopes and concepts that are quite chilling and enjoyable. These all end up making for a fun time here as, even though there isn't much wrong here it does have some minor issues. The most obvious of these drawbacks is the expected familiarity due to the expected setup and approach taken here. While some liberties can be granted to this one due to the country of origin not providing anything similar, looking at it from a much broader sense reveals a wholly familiar series of setups, setpieces, and general presentation that can make this one feel like an ordinary production. However, there's also the film committing one of the cardinal sins of found-footage films in featuring too many unfilmable scenes involving the ghosts coming to life and tormenting the group which are impossible to pull off in the context featured here. These are immersion-shattering scenes when thought about afterward as to how they would be filmed at the moment and help to paint the main flaw of its production status.

    Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.
    8negotium

    Just excellent

    I've seen dozens of movies where people with cameras investigate a haunted house. This tops nearly all of them. The script and acting are excellent. The cinematography awesome. It's also about as original as you can get in this subgenre. I was really surprised.

    It helps that it is situated in Lebanese culture. The characters are interesting and not just loudmouth stereotypes, like you find in English-language and a lot of Far-Eastern movies. Surprisingly, the inevitable prologue where the characters are introduced and interact was enjoyable rather than the usual fake and annoying. The history of the house and the events there are situated within colonialist history.

    The director has a track record of making original and impactful movie.

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    • Release date
      • May 8, 2022 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Lebanon
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    • Language
      • Arabic
    • Filming locations
      • Lebanon(location)
    • Production companies
      • 2 Red Rabbit Films
      • Lighthouse Peace Initiative
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      1 hour 34 minutes
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      • 1.78 : 1

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