“1001 Frames,” which screened at Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, is composed of a series of creepy scenes from auditions conducted in Tehran, Iran. But it could be any city.

During the auditions, wannabe actors are asked to improvise scenes including being a cat, being trapped in a room, and being propositioned by a famous director. In fact, the last one is for real as the aspiring thespians eventually discover. It is at that point that the film contorts itself into a horror movie.

In the auditions, the actors are told the film for which they are auditioning is inspired by “One Thousand and One Nights,” also known as “The Arabian Nights,” an Arabic folktale in which the central character, Scheherazade, has to keep her captor, the king, amused by telling him stories so she isn’t k

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