Why Jewish Horror Movies Aren’t Really A Thing, According To The Vigil Director

Beyond just the mythology, however, what also can’t be ignored in this conversation are the literal horrors that the Jewish people have endured for multiple millennia. The community’s history is darkened by traumatic nightmares like slavery in Egypt, the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, Russian/Eastern European pogroms, and persistent anti-Semitism. It generally hasn’t been material that we’ve seen directly addressed in the genre in question, though, and what makes it even stranger, as Keith Thomas noted, is that there are a number of great horror movies made by Jewish directors (the aforementioned Sam Raimi, Steven Spielberg, and David Cronenberg being just a few). Said Thomas,