This Jesus horror movie could have used more heresy
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Yiddish World A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement
Informed by Jewish folklore and the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the film carries a mythic poetic quality
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‘Before’ is too shallow to be smart and too silly to be scary
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Culture This horror movie stars a Jewish grandma from Brooklyn. A sweet little old lady she’s not
A granddaughter’s love and offbeat family history drive the dark and campy film ‘Grandma’s House’
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Film & TV She wrote the book on Israeli horror movies — real-life horror stopped the book tour
Author Olga Gershenson talks about the genre of Israeli horror and the ongoing terror in Israel
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