The Golem — Trailer

added: Tue, Jan 22nd '19

The Golem, the 16th-century Jewish folktale about a menacing monster made magically out of clay and mud, is the basis of a new horror movie from the makers of "Jeruzalem."

Doron and Yoav Paz (aka The PAZ brothers) directs this supernatural thriller that stars Israeli-American actress Hani Furstenberg (The Loneliest Planet) as a 17th-century Lithuanian woman who turns to Jewish mysticism to conjure up a protective clay monster that takes the form of a young boy.

Co-starring Ishai Golen (Prisoners of War) and written by Ariel Cohen, "The Golem," which won over horror critics when it premiered at FrightFest London last year, is being released in select U.S. theaters and on VOD/Blu-Ray/DVD on February 5th. In the meantime, you can watch the trailer, above.

synopsis:
THE GOLEM is a supernatural, cinematic retelling of a 16th-century Jewish folktale from the Kabbalah. During an outbreak of a deadly plague, a mystical woman must save her tight-knit Jewish community from foreign invaders, but the entity she summons to protect them is a far greater evil.

In this stunningly reimagined period horror version of an old mystical legend, a Jewish community in a shtetl are besieged by deadly intruders. Set in 17th century Lithuania, Hanna (Hani Furstenberg) the wistful, conflicted wife of the local rabbi’s son Benjamin (Ishai Golen), secretly turns to Jewish mysticism and The Kabbalah to conjure up a dangerous entity to protect her community. But the creature she molds out of mud and summons to life echoes her tragic past and becomes so dangerously connected to its creator, that Hanna can't see what a heartless monster she has fashioned from abject fear and desperate loathing.

directed by Doron and Yoav Paz (aka The PAZ brothers)

starring Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golen

release date February 5, 2019 (in select theaters and on VOD/Blu-Ray/DVD)