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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This Jewish horror seems ripe for terrorizing audiences with plenty of opportunities. A shomer is a family member or paid person if the family member is unavailable to sit the night through with a corpse before burial to chant the evil spirits away. The young shomer (Dave Davis) is guilty for letting a young boy under his watch bullied and die.
The house where he is shoming is kept by the deceased widow who has Alzheimer’s and who expresses cryptic reservations as to the man’s ability to carry out the task. The man begins to imagine things or are the things really…
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