{"id":55894,"date":"2020-07-12T23:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=55894"},"modified":"2020-07-12T23:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:24:23","slug":"the-mostly-in-yiddish-trailer-for-a-new-horror-movie-depicts-a-jewish-burial-ritual-gone-terribly-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/the-mostly-in-yiddish-trailer-for-a-new-horror-movie-depicts-a-jewish-burial-ritual-gone-terribly-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The mostly-in-Yiddish trailer for a new horror movie depicts a Jewish burial ritual gone terribly wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest film from a production company behind a string of low-budget horror hits centers on a terrifying night spent carrying out an important Jewish burial ritual.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Vigil,\u201d out in the United States in August, is about a formerly observant Jew who is recruited to stand guard over the body of a Holocaust survivor who dies in Brooklyn\u2019s Hasidic Borough Park neighborhood. (Jewish law requires bodies to be accompanied from death to burial.)<\/p>\n

A trailer released last week shows frightening events ensuing overnight.<\/p>\n

The movie comes from Blumhouse, the production company that is responsible also for \u201cGet Out,\u201d \u201cThe Purge\u201d and other recent horror movies.<\/p>\n

Much of \u201cThe Vigil\u201d appears to be in Yiddish, and it stars actors who have previously appeared in Jewish-themed productions. They include at least two people who grew up in Hasidic communities: Malky Goldman, who most recently appeared in \u201cUnorthodox,\u201d and Menashe Lustig, who starred in a 2017 semi-autobiographical feature film, \u201cMenashe,\u201d that was the among the first movies in the modern era to be scripted in Yiddish.<\/p>\n

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