--- title: 'Shelley (2016)' type: 'film' director: 'Ali Abbasi' released: '2016-02-14' runtime_minutes: 90 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Horror' countries: - 'Denmark' - 'Sweden' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/shelley-2016' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013688/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Shelley (2016) 2016 · 90 min · Drama, Horror · Denmark, Sweden ## Synopsis Shelley is a 2016 Danish drama horror film directed and co-written by Ali Abbasi and stars Ellen Dorrit Petersen and Peter Christoffersen as a couple who, faced with the inability to bear children, arrange for their Romanian maid to be a surrogate mother, soon leading to increasingly sinister events as the due date approaches. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ali Abbasi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ali-abbasi) - **Screenplay:** [Ali Abbasi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ali-abbasi), [Maren Louise Käehne](https://cinepixo.com/people/maren-louise-kaehne) - **Original Music Composer:** [Martin Juel Dirkov](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-juel-dirkov) - **Producer:** [Jacob Jarek](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacob-jarek) - **Director of Photography:** [Sturla Brandth Grøvlen](https://cinepixo.com/people/sturla-brandth-gr-vlen), [Nadim Carlsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/nadim-carlsen) - **Editor:** [Olivia Neergaard-Holm](https://cinepixo.com/people/olivia-neergaard-holm) ## Cast - [Peter Christoffersen](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-christoffersen) - [Cosmina Stratan](https://cinepixo.com/people/cosmina-stratan) - [Ellen Dorrit Petersen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ellen-dorrit-petersen) - [Björn Andrésen](https://cinepixo.com/people/bjorn-andresen) - [Marianne Mortensen](https://cinepixo.com/people/marianne-mortensen) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/shelley-2016 Film facts: Wikidata (Q20496116); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.