Say Your Prayers As The Vigil Gets An January Home Release

After it’s UK cinema release earlier this year, Blumhouse chiller The Vigil is set for an UK home release next month it’s time to say your prayers.

This film is the debut feature from Keith Thomas. With an unusual and evocative setting, it’s beautifully crafted, packed with fingernail-shredding scares (including a mysterious video message that’ll stand your hair on end), an ominous and eerie score, and features a standout performance from Davis as a man confronting evil. The words “You want some tea?” will never sound the same again.

Dave Davis stars as Yakov a Jewish man who has lost his faith. He reluctantly  agrees to be an overnight shomer (a Jewish practice in which a person watches over the body of a recently deceased community member). Soon to discover the house he’s in has some dark terrifying secrets.

Our Horror editor Bradley Hadcroft reviewed this film back in the summer “Thomas has succeeded in creating a fascinating film that shines both as a relentless fright-fest and a rare glimpse into an ecclesiastical grotto uncharted by modern horror.”

Check out the Trailer below, then read Bradley’s full review you’ll find the link to review below the trailer…

Related: Film Review – The Vigil (2019)

THE VIGIL is set over the course of a long, dark night in Brooklyn’s Hassidic “Boro” Park neighbourhood, following Yakov (Dave Davis, True Detective), a former Hassid, who has lost his faith, and isn’t eager to go back to the insular religious community he only recently fled. But when Reb Shulem (Menashe Lustig), a rabbi and confidante, approaches Yakov and offers to pay him to be the shomer (watching over the dead body of a community member) for a recently deceased Holocaust survivor, he reluctantly accepts the job. Shortly after arriving at the dilapidated house, Yakov realises that something is very, very wrong. This will not be a quiet vigil.

The film stars Adam Margules, Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Malky Goldman, Lynn Cohen, and Fred Melamed.

The Vigil is available now on Digital Download, however if you prefer DVD you can pick up a copy from 4th January 2021.