The Vigil

cranking the volume up is not the same thing as crafting scares.

Josh Lewis

He really should have held firm at $500 for all that.

Isaac Feldberg

I am legitimately shocked that this didn’t get higher ratings from everyone. I don’t find movies actually genuinely scary very often, but I feel like if you don’t find this at least a little bit scary then I’m concerned?? Maybe I loved it so much because it hits all the…

Tony the Terror

I miss the old Blumhouse that produced the film that traumatized me (Sinister) and works that were excellent additions to horror that ended up becoming "hidden gems", as is the case with "The Vigil". Here we follow Yakov, who after a traumatic event push him away from his…

𝒊𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒅𝒖𝒅𝒖

my man Yakov should have googled "how to talk to demons" instead of "how to talk to women"

tom

Great concept! Horrible execution. The actors were not that great. Horror? More like bore-r.

Allison M. 🌱

Set within the Hasidic neighbourhood of Boro Park Brooklyn, The Vigil is a low key, minimalist horror based upon Jewish faith's beliefs and traditions. The plot centres on Yakov Ronen (Dave Davis), a former Orthodox Jew who's striving to adjust to living in the outside…

Paul Elliott

Jewish folklore is not as explored as Christian folklore is in the history of standard, cliched horror films filled with compensating loud noise and weird, out-of-focus characters whose bones crack when they move around. The Vigil sets out to fix that.

Paul Thomas

A tight atmospheric horror thriller, refreshingly based on orthodox Jewish traditions vs. the usual Christian religious tropes. Seriously, we need more non-Catholic/Christian horror movies -- that vein has been tapped to death. It seems there is so much interesting lore…

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