{"id":2043974,"date":"2025-09-23T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2043974"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:59:38","slug":"polygamy-themed-arab-horror-movie-the-vile-launches-from-fantastic-fest-its-something-we-grew-up-with-says-emirati-director-majid-al-ansari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/polygamy-themed-arab-horror-movie-the-vile-launches-from-fantastic-fest-its-something-we-grew-up-with-says-emirati-director-majid-al-ansari\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygamy-Themed Arab Horror Movie \u2018The Vile\u2019 Launches From Fantastic Fest: \u2018It\u2019s Something We Grew Up With,\u2019 Says Emirati Director Majid Al Ansari"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emirati director Majid Al Ansari<\/a> broke out at Austin\u2019s Fantastic Fest ten years ago with Tarantino<\/a>-esque noir \u201cZinzana<\/a>\u201d (aka \u201cRattle The Cage\u201d) about a psychopathic police officer who inflicts torture on a prisoner in a remote jail. The psychological thriller became the first Arab language film acquired by Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Al Ansari is now back in Austin with elevated horror film \u201cThe Vile<\/a>\u201d (\u201cHoba<\/a>\u201d) a tale of polygamy in which a woman named Amani<\/a> is blindsided and emotionally shattered when her husband, Khalid<\/a>, brings a second wife into their home. Living with the new bride, Zahra<\/a>, Amani tries to re-assert her role as the family matriarch. Polygamy, also known as having multiple spouses, is legally allowed for Muslim men in Gulf countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. However the practice is declining and is often viewed negatively by women who find it detrimental to family stability.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Vile<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emirati director Majid Al Ansari broke out at Austin\u2019s Fantastic Fest ten years ago with Tarantino-esque noir \u201cZinzana\u201d (aka \u201cRattle The Cage\u201d) about a psychopathic police officer who inflicts torture on a prisoner in a remote jail. The psychological thriller became the first Arab language film acquired by Netflix. Al Ansari is now back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2043975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2043974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Polygamy-Themed-Arab-Horror-Movie-\u2018The-Vile-Launches-From-Fantastic-Fest.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}