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Dave Davis as Yakov Ronen in 'The Vigil.' (Courtesy of IFC Midnight via JTA) JTA — When Keith Thomas set out to write and direct a Jewish horror movie, he knew he wanted to go beyond the two most well-known Jewish monsters. Golems, creepy creatures usually formed out of mud or clay found in Jewish stories, were played out, he thought. So were dybbuks, a type of ghostly spirit mentioned in Jewish mythology. So he drew on what he learned from writing a master’s thesis about Jewish monsters at Hebrew Union College over a decade ago and turned to a lesser-known demon: the mazzik.

Credit: Courtesy of IFC Midnight. An IFC Midnight Release. In the horror film The Vigil, a Jewish New Yorker named Yakov (Dave Davis) agrees to act as an overnight "shomer" — someone who watches over the body of a recently-deceased person — despite Davis' character having recently broken from his observant religious community. Much spookiness ensues as Yakov must deal with not just supernatural forces but also the unnerving behavior of the deceased's dementia-stricken widow, Mrs. Litvak (Lynn Cohen). " The Vigil is essentially about a man who has left the Hasidic community in which he ...