Billed as a “Jewish horror movie,” Keith Thomas’ “The Vigil” doesn’t dive very deep into theology or even specific traditional superstitions in its tale of a long night for a protagonist watching o…
1 hour 28 minutes’ “The Vigil” doesn’t dive very deep into theology or even specific traditional superstitions in its tale of a long night for a protagonist watching over a recently deceased Orthodox man’s body. Nonetheless, the cultural context adds novelty to an effectively creepy, small-scale chiller that does a nice job eking suspense from its simple story and limited setting.
Yakov is a young man we first meet in a Brooklyn support group for those who’ve left close-knit Hasidic communities and are taking baby steps into an unfamiliar secular society. He appears more fragile than most, having made his break in part due to a little brother’s death that left him guilt-plagued and traumatized.
With the corpse lying under a sheet on a gurney in the living room, things are already disquieting enough before noises overhead, wavering lights and apparent hallucinations begin to seriously trouble our none-too-stable protagonist. A video playing in the basement has Mr. Litvak discussing an ancient demon that attached itself to him at Buchenwald, then fed on his painful memories ever after.
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