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The Vigil
Directed by
Keith Thomas
PG-13
2019
88m
Horror
,
Mystery
,
and more
5.8
90%
55%
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A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity, in writer-director Keith Thomas' electrifying feature debut.
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Cast of The Vigil
Dave Davis
Yakov Ronen
Lynn Cohen
Mrs. Litvak
Menashe Lustig
Reb Shulem
Malky Goldman
Sarah
Fred Melamed
Dr. Kohlberg
Nati Rabinowitz
Lane
Moshe Lobel
Lazer
Spencer Zender
Eric
Dun Laskey
Young Rubin Litvak
Hershy Fishman
Ronald Cohen
Mr. Rubin Litvak
Efraim Miller
Hersch
Lea Kalisch
Adinah
Hunter Menken
SS Soldier
Ethan Stone
Burech
Emilio Vitolo
Scott
Logan Macrae
Carson
Rob Tunstall
Mazzick
Bluma Gross
Young Woman
Les Gardonyi
Demon
The Vigil Ratings & Reviews
The Jewish Chronicle
Linda Marric
There is an eerie creepiness about The Vigil which is both terrifying and impressive in its treatment of folklore and old superstition. Enlightening and genuinely engaging.
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
Keith Thomas's film hums with uncanny dread, milking the close juxtaposition of living and dead for all its worth.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
No split pea soup spews forth, yet Keith Thomas' demonic Jewish horror freak-out summons the spectre of "The Exorcist" and its catastrophic jump scares.
Salon.com
Matthew Rozsa
It is smart enough, scary enough and unique enough to be worth a watch both for horror fans and for people who want to see more Jewish culture represented on the screen.
Austin Chronicle
Matthew Monagle
It dares to look forward, finding a future for Yakov that merges his two identities - religious and secular - and suggests a path back into the light.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
An intriguing stab at modern Hasidic horror (we smell a burgeoning subgenre).
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
This sort of paint-by-numbers horror narrative barely scratches the surface of the heavy issues it alludes to.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
There is a touching human dimension to this tale that brought tears to my eyes.
ChrisStuckmann.com
Chris Stuckmann
This is a really damn good horror film made on a tight budget with almost one location only, and it never drags. They find really exciting ways to use this location to their advantage.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Christy Lemire
They accomplish so much here with what is clearly a low budget and basically one location. It's terrifying.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
Cannily filters its suspense through the prism of personal-and inherited-Jewish trauma.
The Playlist
Kristy Puchko
The Vigil is a sophisticated and scary film, smartly executed.
New York Times
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Keith Thomas's slim but effective "The Vigil" milks terror from a minimalistic setup, relying on the shapes we make out with squinted eyes in the shadows.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
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.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Sadly, director Keith Thomas doesn't trust his own themes or visual sense, swallowing his entire film up in abrasive sound design and a reliance on jump scares.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Even as The Vigil settles into a familiar routine, it tackles that task with a polished, at times even elegant approach to a haunted house formula.
Celluloid Dreams
Peter Canavese
The hook, the cultural aspect, the concept, the unsettling imagery and especially the acting elevate 'The Vigil' above being just another modestly budgeted haunted house movie.
Chicago Daily Herald
Dann Gire
All these elements set us up to anticipate a horrifying film experience that never quite gels...
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
What works better is how Thomas transforms Orthodox culture into gory material for a slightly elevated horror flick, with Yakov ultimately turning to Hebrew prayer as his only way out of hell.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
I loved it for bringing us into the darkness of the mysterious Jewish underworld, but I only wish it did a lot more daring things with it once there.
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