Adel is a journalist for a major newspaper, divorced and single, he was married before and has a daughter. One night, in the bar he always visits, he meets Nash'at al Kashef, the son of a the famous businessman Fahmy Al Kashef. Nash'at kills the bartender and he injures the belly dancer Nadia when she refuses to go back to his house with him. Adel calls the police, but Fahmy uses his power to get the accusation off his son. Adel succeeds in reaching Nadia, the only witness, and makes her confess what she saw to the police, who catch Nash'at and send him to court. Adel falls in love with Mosheera, daughter of Fahmy Al Kashef. The court finds Nash'at not guilty, so Adel decides to set justice to the case by his own hands.
Acting
Adel Emam's transformation from idealist to something monstrous.
Direction
Samir Seif builds dread through Cairo's shadowy underbelly.
Writing
The courtroom farce that breaks your faith in institutions.
Director
Samir Seif
Adel Emam
Adel Issa
Nelly
Mushira Darwish
Farid Shawqy
Fahmy Al-Kashef
Salah El-Saadany
Hussein Abu Deif, prosecutor
Fouad Khalil
Atef - journalist
Hatem Zulfiqar
Nashaat Al-Kashef
Osama Abbas
Youssef Mahran
Abdel Salam Mohamed
Morsi Al-Suwaifi
Nadia Ezzat
Fatima - Morsi's wife
Badr Nofal
Dr. Younis Awadallah, lawyer
Mahmoud ElZohairy
Helmy - Editor-in-Chief
Said Tarabeek
Yousry - Barman
Youssef Fawzy
Bar Manager
Nawal Fahmy
Fahmi Al-Kashef's wife
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Egypt's Infitah era, the film captures raw anxiety about new money crushing old morality. Fahmy Al-Kashef's corruption mirrors real businessmen who purchased legal immunity.
The title's Arabic 'Al-Ghoul' means both 'monster' and 'bogeyman' — Adel's newspaper exposes become self-fulfilling prophecy when he embodies what he named.
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