There is no gain in saying that the PG-13 movie is quite frightening, even to the mature skeptical mind.
Though seemingly defeated, the dybbuk eventually extracts its revenge. It then infests her father until it is finally forced to beat a protoplasmic retreat back into the box. In a stormy session, Em is freed of the dybbuk - the dislocated spirit of an odious sinner who dies before repenting and now seeks refuge from avenging angels. Finally, a professor recalls the dybbuk story and advises Clyde to travel to Brooklyn and appeal to an old Chasidic rabbi.Ĭlyde’s pleadings are rejected by the rabbi, but the rabbi’s son, played by the reggae and alternative rock musician Matisyahu, takes pity and agrees to try an exorcism.
The increasingly desperate father seeks medical advice an MRI reveals strange apparitions within the girl’s body. Her father disposes of the box in a distant dumpster, but she sallies forth in her nightgown across a dark deserted street to retrieve it. Em stabs her dad’s hand with a fork and giant moths invade her bedroom. Predictably, terrible things begin to happen. At home, overcome with curiosity, Em is in her room when she pries open the box and finds a bird’s skeleton, a lock of hair, strange carvings and an ancient-looking ring. Clyde takes the girls - Hannah, 15, and Em, 11 - to a yard sale, where Em is oddly attracted to a small box inscribed with Hebrew letters and persuades her father to buy it.
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