Kayan tells the story of a Saudi couple visiting friends in Egypt with their young baby. On their way home one night they get lost and decide to spend the night in a hotel. But this is no regular hotel and soon they find themselves held captive by the ghosts of their past. They are forced to confront their sins in a nail-biting journey to dawn
Direction
Jomah squeezes 75 minutes into pure panic
Practical Effects
Hotel built to feel genuinely cursed
Sound
Silence weaponized, then shattered
Director
Hakeem Jomah
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the first Saudi-Egyptian co-productions in the elevated horror space, shot during pandemic restrictions in actual abandoned Sinai hotels.
Summer Shesha improvised her breakdown scene; Jomah kept rolling for 11 minutes. The take in the film is minute 7.
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