The Blumhouse team have had mixed fortunes this year – Fantasy Island suffered a critical drubbing, but both press and audiences embraced The Invisible Man. The company is still pumping out the horror titles, with The Vigil due to start its creepy watch in cinemas - assuming they stay open – at the end of the month.
Set over the course of a long, dark night in Brooklyn’s Hassidic "Boro" Park neighbourhood, The Vigil follows Yakov (Dave Davis), 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 (who watches 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. Let's be honest... He should have seen that coming.
The Vigil is scheduled to arrive on screens on 31 July, again, pandemic permitting.