Bewitching Eyes

Bewitching Eyes (1934)

عيون ساحرة

Delilah, a singer, seems at first to be in mutual love with a young man named Sami, but her club won't let him in much, and he grows distant while she grows fonder. She accosts him demanding he reconsider, jumping into his car as he leaves the club. Sami's car crashes, throwing him to his death, but Delilah escapes. Heartbroken and traumatized, she visits his grave in the dead of night and performs occult rituals to revive him.

Date of release
1934-02-08
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 5m
Genres
Horror
Director
Ahmed Galal

Casting

Interesting facts

Uyun sahira is a 1934 Egyptian film directed by Ahmed Galal. It is often considered the first Egyptian horror film, and caused some controversy at the time.

Production

The director, Ahmed Galal (1897–1947), married actress and producer Mary Queeny in 1940, and they co-founded of Galal Studios in Cairo in 1940.

The 28th feature film released in Egypt and a first for speculative fiction, the film was a breakthrough by the standards of the time. The subject matter, regarding the soul and death, was subject to controversy. Some government censors and scholars at Al-Azhar University, including the latter's Grand Imam Muhammad al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri, considered the film sacrilegious.

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