A Misleading Name

A Misleading Name

The perfect game has one flaw

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Release Date

8/30/2026

Runtime

7 mins

Genres

Overview

After a teenage boy arrives for a private lesson at his teachers home, a series of unsettling discoveries—and a mysterious mute neighbor desperate to communicate—lead him to suspect his obsessive teacher is playing a deadly game with his students.

Status

Released

Original Language

Arabic

Budget

$80

Revenue

-

Homepage

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A mounting sense of dread unfolds as a student realizes his private lesson is part of something far more sinister, with every detail becoming a potential clue to a deadly trap. The compressed runtime wraps you in suspicion and unease before it can fully breathe.

Mood

TenseUnsettlingParanoid

Themes

Obsession

Tone

Matter-of-fact

Pacing

Brisk

Look

HandheldNaturalistic

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Graphic violence

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