A spooky and tense horror movie that doesn't really get there in the end.
Broke and new to America, Yacov is part of a support group for Jews new to America. He is invited to be a Shomer for a recently deceased man for $400 so he can make rent. What follows is a movie that reminds one of The Conjuring and Insidious. Frightening monsters and strange demonic presences, hallucinations and eerie visual effect. The atmosphere in this movie is tangible, and there are some great and dramatic camera shots, however the movie overall is lit too poorly to even really see anything. There are scenes that are purposefully shot blurry which sometimes ruins the tension. It started off innocently enough and the tension did build but cheap jump scares really ruined it for me. I also thought that the final battle resolved too easily. The music and sound effects were overbearing and overused. DUNDUN SKREEEEEEE SKREEE. It was all too much. Yacov's backstory is also very very barely explained, which made it feel like it wasn't necessary for anything except to explain the monster's presence. I liked learning about orthodox Jewish myths and religion. I liked that the film was heavily in another language - that is something we don't see often here in Australia and we certainly don't have a strong Jewish subculture.

[spoiler]The film also falls into the - "it's not over" trope in the end, where the character didn't really defeat the evil,[/spoiler]

Anyway I would say it's worth a watch, but maybe once it's on Netflix.