Review by djichiban

First, i am watching many modern horror movies, and even though they entertain me sometimes, most of them are rather boring because they all show what others have already shown. This is where The Vigil comes in, due to the ongoing pandemic that affected its release in Germany 2020, i had a tough time finding movies in the cinema i haven't watched already. So one night i decided to go and watch this movie, which did not seem to be an outstanding movie due to its bad IMDb rating and mediocre Metascore. I have never ever been proven wrong that much by prejudices. It is a movie that shows us so many unseen things, first of all there is its jewish theming, touching the controversy of orthodox religion. Next at a horror perspective it is a film that uses less jumpscares than you would expect, it had various scenes where i thought that it builds jumpscares up, just to see that what is showed as the scare, is so terrifying that there is no need for an jumpscare to scare an audience. Speaking of that, this movie ultimately is about the horrible mistreatments of Jews by the Nazis during the second World War. About haunting traumas, about possible mistreatments in the jewish orthodox society. It might not be the best movie of 2020 to me, but for people that don't want to see the same thing in a different movie everyday this might be a really good choice.