Film
The Vigil
- Director
- Keith Thomas
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 89 mins
In Brooklyn’s Hassidic ‘Boro’ Park neighbourhood, rabbi Reb Shulem (Menashe Lustig) needs someone to be the overnight shomer (a person who watches over the dead body of a community member) for a recently deceased Holocaust survivor. Yakov (Dave Davis), a former Hassid who has lost his faith, reluctantly accepts the rabbi’s offer of $400, but soon realises that this is going to be a very unquiet night indeed thanks to our old chum the dastardly demon from the pits of hell.
First-time director Keith Thomas mines Orthodox Jewish tradition to put a moderately fresh twist on his suspenseful Blumhouse demonic possession horror.
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