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Jan 13, 2023 · In the film, which hits theaters and on-demand platforms on Friday (the 13th), a young man (Nick Blood) brings his pregnant, non-Jewish fiancé (Emily Weisman) to meet his long-estranged father...
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.
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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 12, 2024 · Despite the fact that Abyzou is not endemic to Judaism, The Offering slightly tweaks 5,000+ years of tradition by linking her to Binding of Isaac. As one character explains, God...
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 ...
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Jan 9, 2023 · A morgue is a central setting for Hoffman and Yunger’s new horror film The Offering, about a Hasidic funeral director in Borough Park, Brooklyn, who’s haunted by a demon called Abyzou. The...
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.
