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The Offering is a 2023 American horror-thriller film directed by Oliver Park and with a screenplay by Hank Hoffman from a story by Hoffman and Jonathan Yunger, based on the Jewish folktale of Abyzou. It stars Nick Blood, Emily Wiseman, Allan Corduner, Paul Kaye, Daniel Ben Zenou and Jodie Jacobs.
Jan 11, 2023 · The new movie merges the Jewish faith with horror to explore one of the most fundamental fears of humanity: how to protect one's child from a threat larger than oneself. The Offering introduces Heimish, who owns a Hasidic funeral home, as his estranged son Art returns with his heavily pregnant Shiksa wife.
- Caitlin Tyrrell
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Jan 10, 2023 · Just like the darkest parts of Christian mythology have been the stuff of Hollywood nightmares for as long as there have been movies, director Oliver Park’s reverse-exorcism thriller “The...
- Christian Zilko
The premise has potential (an ancient Jewish-kabbalistic demon is on the loose within an orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn and turns on innocent people), and the setting in an old town-house with in the basement a mortuary is atmospheric and pleasantly creepy, but that's about it.
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- Horror
- Oliver Park
- 2023-01-13
Jan 13, 2023 · (JTA) — British filmmaker Oliver Park isn’t Jewish, but he does have a deep appreciation for the Jewish roots of the horror genre that informed his work on “The Offering,” his feature...
Jan 12, 2023 · In this Brooklyn-set horror film, an evil spirit causes torment at a Jewish funeral home. Allan Corduner, Paul Kaye and Nick Blood in “The Offering,” set in a Hasidic funeral home in Brooklyn...
Apr 14, 2023 · Instead, The Offering —which was directed by Oliver Park, with a screenplay by Hank Hoffman—explores the mysticism of Orthodox Judaism. Specifically, it focuses on the myth of a demon who steals...
