Synopsis
The American Backyard (L'orto americano, 2025) is an Italian horror film you can watch online on iFILM, from director Pupi Avati — one of Italy's longest-running names in atmospheric, slow-burn dread.
A young Italian man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year on, he follows her to the American Midwest, renting a place beside her elderly mother's house (Rita Tushingham) to finish his first novel. Between the two properties: a garden. Something about it is quietly, persistently wrong. Filippo Scotti leads, with Chiara Caselli and singer-turned-actor Cesare Cremonini in supporting roles. Avati has a gift for turning familiar landscapes sinister — The American Backyard is that gift applied to an unexpected setting. Stream it online on iFILM.
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