Asudem

Asudem is an American horror film written and directed by Daryush Shokof. Asudem is the reverse writing of Medusa which is a word created by Shokof with which he also made artworks under the same title. The film indicates a surreal story of a woman Yangzom Brauen in the woods before meeting the devil, experiencing a heavenly vision after consuming hallucinogenic mushrooms. The film is shot in black and white and entirely in Berlin, Germany.
The concept behind the creation of the new word Asudem is described by Shokof that he believes the real evil is not the head of a human being covered and poisoned by most poisonous snakes but rather that the real horror is the defenseless snakes heads that are covered by evil heads of most dangerous and poisonous human beings driving the snakes into madness.

Plot 
The location, setting, and compositions of the film are similar with most other films by Daryush Shokof in which the location, situation or both is confined to one place with universal elements as if it could be any place on earth.

The film begins with a woman hiding in a destroyed train station during a war. The woman confronts strange happenings throughout the film as the intensity of the incidents increase in danger until she finally meets the devil, who wants to finish her off, so she decides to feed the devil mushrooms in the woods, so he would have heavenly visions to suffocate him to death.

Cast 
 Yangzom Brauen
 Joachim Paul Assboeck
 Guido Foehrweisser
 Narges Rashidi
 Manuel Cortez
 Benjamin Morik
 Ernest Hausmann
 Annabelle Mandeng
 Araba Walton
 Farvad Esfandyar

Art Design
 Daryush Shokof

Awards 
Asudem won the best horror-film Genre award at the New York International Film and Video Festival NYIIFVF in 2007.

References

External links 
 
 Asudem at the International Film and Video Center
 Asudem at Independent film Distribution
 Extended Cast and Crew Info
 Info about the film's creator Daryush Shokof 

Category:2006 films
Category:2006 horror films
Category:American supernatural horror films
Category:American films
Category:Films set in Berlin
Category:The Devil in fiction