In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling with his father. Little do they know that directly beneath them in the family morgue, an ancient evil with sinister plans for the unborn child lurks inside a mysterious corpse.
By setting a traditional horror story in the world of Hasidic Judaism, director Oliver Park crafts a film onto a fascinating new canvas. Mostly set within the walls of a religious funeral home, where an ancient rituals and beliefs try to co-exist in a modern world, it’s also a splendid, scary, modern horror film that never forgets what it’s here to do.
