We’ve just received word that The Vigil, a new horror movie from writer/ director Keith Thomas, will land in UK cinemas from July through Vertigo Releasing. This will be one of the first new horror movies to play in auditoriums since the coronavirus lockdown in March.
Here’s the official synopsis:
THE VIGIL is set over the course of a long, dark night in Brooklyn’s Hassidic “Boro” Park neighbourhood, following Yakov (Dave Davis, True Detective), a former Hassid, who has lost his faith, and isn’t eager to go back to the insular religious community he only recently fled. But when Reb Shulem (Menashe Lustig), a rabbi and confidante, approaches Yakov and offers to pay him to be the shomer (watching over the dead body of a community member) for a recently deceased Holocaust survivor, he reluctantly accepts the job. Shortly after arriving at the dilapidated house, Yakov realises that something is very, very wrong. This will not be a quiet vigil.
The film will land in UK and Irish cinemas from 17th July. More info as it comes in.
