Yiddish horror blends the secular and divine in terrifying ways

Keith Thomas’s multilayered horror explores how trauma travels down through the generations as Dave Davis plays a troubled man who spends a night sitting i...

One of the joys of watching horror films is the discovery. A new director or star. An unexpected scare. A twist on a familiar convention that renders a trope...

Horror films often offer catharsis, but rarely are they also as deeply sorrowful as Keith Thomas’s “The Vigil,” a horror film based in Jewish faith and...

Dave Davis is a Jewish man sitting vigil over a corpse in Keith Thomas's horror film. Read the Empire review.

Writer-director Keith Thomas’ feature debut, 'The Vigil,' is a horror movie set in the Orthodox Jewish community of Brooklyn.

Keith Thomas' debut doesn't reinvent the horror playbook, but it's a welcome expansion of its themes.

Review: A long, creepy night of the souls makes excellent use of its setting

‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ is latest powerful film on how the federal government persecuted civil rights icons in the nid-20th century.

Keith Thomas's horror film is full of the usual jump scares and musical stings, but its unique context makes it a worthy Midnight Madness entry

Money pulls in a night watcher, but a malicious spirit gets into his head in this feature debut from Keith Thomas.

From the director of the upcoming Firestarter remake!

On three Midnight Madness films from TIFF, including a darling that worked its way here all the way from Park City. 

This sort of paint-by-numbers horror narrative barely scratches the surface of the heavy issues it alludes to.

“The Vigil” is the most original, most chilling horror film of the new year. And let me hasten to add, it’s not even close. It’s a supernatural thril...

Set in Brooklyn's Hasidic community, 'The Vigil' is a culturally specific supernatural thriller—yet very familiar in its scares. Our review.

Keith Thomas makes his directorial debut to introduce the mazzik, an invisible Jewish demon that torments people

Keith Thomas’s movie is available on BookMyShow Stream.

Filmmaker Keith Thomas’ feature directorial debut—from the studio behind “The Babadook”—explores the reverberations of past trauma in an Orthodox J...

In writer-director Keith Thomas’s bid to add a layer of thematic novelty to a familiar genre, he has come up with a mish-mash that will satisfy only those ...

This Chasidic chiller is the first horror film to be made in Yiddish

“The Vigil” is an effective, stripped-down exercise in pure terror, and a strong argument as any for a new wave of Jewish Horror.

The death of a Hasidic man drives the demon who'd haunted him to find a new host in this modest but creepy "Jewish horror movie."