The Golem – ABC Film Challenge – Horror – G – The Golem – Movie Review
Director: Doran Paz, Yoav Paz
Writer: Ariel Cohen (Screenplay)
Cast
- Hani Furstenberg
- Ishai Golan
- Kirill Cernyakov
- Brynie Furstenberg
- Lenny Ravitz
Plot: During an outbreak of a deadly plague in Lithuania, a mystical woman must save her tight-knit Jewish community from a gang of ruffians led by a local landowner, but the entity she conjures to protect them is a far greater evil.
Runtime: 1 Hour 35 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: The Golem starts in 1673 Lithuania where a small Jewish community lives a quiet life away from anyone else. Hanna (Hani Furstenberg) is about to get married until a gang of ruffians accuses them of unleashing a plague. They become the targets of their hate, forcing Hanna to dive into the community’s past.
Hanna summons a golem figure to protect them, only to learn she has created an evil far worse than imaginable. It becomes a race against time to stop the creature before her own community pays the price for her creation.
Verdict on The Golem
The Golem is brought to us by Jeruzalem directors and takes us into a myth of Jewish legacy. It follows a Jewish community finding itself believing in a protector in the form of a Golem. They must overcome their own problems with a rival community to survive what they have created.
This is a horror that manages to channel a legend from a religion. Much like how the directing pair did in Jeruzalem, they understand how religious icons can be used for good and evil. This has plenty of bloody moments as the Golem strikes and it isn’t like anything you would have imagined. We are left to see the carnage and how much faith is placed into the figure by the one person that needs it most.
Final Thoughts – The Golem is a nice religious-based horror movie.
