Director: Saeed Dashti

Cast: Amirhossein Fathi, Mahtab Servati, Mohammad Larian, Fatemeh Masoudifar, Meysam Mirzaei

New Jersey Devil is a 2026 Iranian horror film directed by Saeed Dashti, following a teenage girl caught between a fragile new family and a predatory creature pulled straight from American folklore. At 132 minutes, it is an ambitious genre exercise from the current wave of Iranian genre cinema.

What is New Jersey Devil about?

Sixteen-year-old Sophie is finally within reach of a permanent home — an adoption process she has waited for longer than she can remember. But as the paperwork inches forward and she begins to settle into her new family's routines, something ancient and hungry stirs in the surrounding dark. The creature originates from the legends of New Jersey, a shape-shifting figure that generations of locals have feared. Sophie and the family must confront escalating terrors as the boundary between folklore and lived reality dissolves, forcing them to question what danger truly looks like when it wears the face of myth.

Cast & crew

Director Saeed Dashti leads this production with a cast that includes Amirhossein Fathi and Mahtab Servati in central roles, alongside Mohammad Larian, Fatemeh Masoudifar, and Meysam Mirzaei. The ensemble brings a mix of dramatic and genre experience to a story that demands sustained emotional credibility under pressure.

Context & significance

Iranian genre cinema has quietly expanded its range over the past decade, moving beyond domestic social drama into horror, thriller, and creature-feature territory. New Jersey Devil sits in that emerging tradition — an Iranian production that deliberately sets its action inside an American mythological landscape, exploring what it means to be an outsider navigating a new country while something predatory circles the margins. For diaspora viewers, that framing carries extra weight: the horror of never feeling fully safe in a new place, the vulnerability of the adoption process, the way folklore can feel more immediate than any official paperwork. Dashti's film speaks to those anxieties in genre language.

Where & how to watch

New Jersey Devil is available to stream on K-Time. The film plays in its original Persian-language audio with subtitles. You can watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, and you can cancel anytime.