Following its well-received run on the festival circuit (including its recent Audience Award win at Popcorn Frights Wicked Weekend virtual Halloween celebration), Keith Thomas' The Vigil is coming to select theaters, Digital, and VOD on February 26th from IFC Midnight, and ahead of its release, a haunting new poster has been revealed.
You can check out the new poster below, and in case you missed it, read Lindsay Traves' in-depth interview with Thomas, who is also directing the new adaptation of Stephen King's Firestarter.
Written and directed by Thomas, The Vigil stars Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, and Lynn Cohen.
Synopsis: "Steeped in ancient Jewish lore and demonology, THE VIGIL is supernatural horror film set over the course of a single evening in Brooklyn's Hasidic Borough Park neighborhood. Low on funds and having recently left his insular religious community, Yakov reluctantly accepts an offer from his former rabbi and confidante to take on the responsibility of an overnight "shomer," fulfilling the Jewish practice of watching over the body of a deceased community member. Shortly after arriving at the recently departed's dilapidated house to sit the vigil, Yakov begins to realize that something is very, very wrong."
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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