I’ve been envisioning, for a few months now, a horror film set in Bnei Brak or in Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem. I suppose it’s because I am a horror buff and because I mused to a friend that I wanted to write my own scary movie, and she asked where it would take place. I knew the setting had to be inherently eerie because I love the work the ambiance can do in film, particularly in horror. Think: Polanski’s Dakota, Kubrick’s Overlook Hotel and surrounding Colorado mountains, Gore Verbinski’s Biblically rainy Seattle, David Robert Mitchell’s Detroit of an indeterminate era. Don’t you think Bnei Brak at night would be terrifying?
Not the villains
Men crowding the streets for one thing or another, as haredim are wont to do––good premise for a scene!
Casting call
I don’t know the plot yet, at all, except that I want it to center around a young boy, between eight and eleven years old, who is the only one who notices the uncanny events unfolding around him. It can’t be anything reminiscent of a demonic possession, as that gets too close to dybbuk stuff, and in addition to being too simple for me, is the premise for Demon, which appears to be a nail-biter. I am culturally literate but will definitely need a co-writer for this sucker. How about Yehonatan Indursky? He’s not busy, is he?
Oh! And how I could I forget the decaying Danvers State in Session 9, my most favorite horror flick of all time?!
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