“Loay,” a young man invites his friend “Oday” over to help him move into a new house. As “Oday” finishes bringing in boxes, “Loay” asks him for one last favor: to take a specific box upstairs while warning him to avoid the mysterious room on the left. Curiosity gets the better of “Oday”, and he enters the forbidden room, initially finding it ordinary. However, he soon hears unsettling knocking from the room bathroom and discovers that each time he closes the door, the knocking resumes.

Review by Julie Sheppard:

Given the definition of the term “left” at the beginning of this fabulous horror short, we know we are in for something spooky — apparently, in Egyptian culture, left is a noun “used to describe a person who commits an unethical deed or sin”. 

The eerie vocal chirps, minor key crescendos, jerky clangs, and ghostly tinny knocks throughout the film, all add to the ominous feel of the piece. The greenish hue of the lighting, as the film progresses, creates a queasy essence. The extreme close ups on faces, and slow pans of the camera around the forbidden left area bring us along with the curious friend who can’t resist disobeying what he has been told — it becomes quite apparent that the thrust of this film is a study of the human tendency to follow the lure of the forbidden. 

The performance of the inquisitive friend is superb, able to creep and scan the prohibited area of the house in a tense and agitated manner that, in turn, keeps the viewer on edge. The clever narrative seems to be in an endless loop, as we discover that the owner of the house is gleefully trapping his foolish friends, for unethical and sinful reasons, as they will all eventually veer to the left.