Something followed Sergeant Rick Pedroni home from Afghanistan, and Refuge, Anton Sigurðsson's 2026 horror feature, spends 91 tight minutes finding out what.
What is Refuge about?
Rick Pedroni comes back from combat to his wife Kate expecting the reunion every homecoming promises, only for her to realize almost immediately that the man in front of her isn't fully the one who left. A mysterious force attached itself to him overseas, and the film builds its dread out of small, wrong details before letting the danger fully surface inside the walls of their own home. Christopher Dietrick plays Rick, with Adam Dorsey, Donald Paul, and Adam Sinclair rounding out a small, tightly wound cast that keeps the story claustrophobic by design. Refuge trades in slow-building unease rather than spectacle, using the domestic setting — a house that's supposed to be safe — as the source of its scares.
About the cast
Christopher Dietrick carries the film as Rick, playing a man whose homecoming curdles into something his wife and the audience have to piece together in real time. Adam Dorsey, Donald Paul, and Adam Sinclair fill out the small supporting cast that surrounds the couple as the situation deteriorates.
Context & significance
Refuge belongs to a strand of horror that uses a soldier's return as its engine, folding the real disorientation of coming home from war into something the genre can dramatize directly. Anton Sigurðsson keeps the scale small and the setting domestic, which lets the film lean on tension and performance rather than effects-driven scares.
Watching Refuge on Ktime
Refuge is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so horror fans who prefer Farsi can watch it either way. The film's page is free to browse, and streaming it just requires a free K-Time account and login.