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Theme: Judaic Mythology

Judaism is the religious practice of the Jewish people (the only religion that manages to belong to an ethnic group, although not all Jewish people are practitioners of Judaism). Judaism essentially covers the first half of The Bible (The Old Testament), which is an ethnographic history covering the creation of the universe, Adam and Eve’s banishment from the Garden of Eden, Moses leading the Jewish people from the yolk of slavery in Egypt to their chosen home in the desert (Israel), the Ten Commandments and so forth. There are many different branches of Judaism and the practice covers everything from morality and social law, diet, clothing, sexuality and belief in the coming of The Messiah.

There are not many genre films that can be considered to be about Judaism per se, although most films about The Afterlife, God, Angels and Heaven are sufficiently nebulous that they can be said to apply to both Judaism and Christianity.

Judaism does lend several aspects of its mythology that have proven popular on screens. One of these is the Ark of the Covenant (which contains the scrolls of the law given to Moses). The others are aspects of mythology from later rabbinic teaching such as The Golem, an artificial creature of clay that can be brought to life to protect the Jewish people, and the demonic spirit known as The Dybbuk.


Demon (2015)

7 April 201718 December 2021

Rating: ★★★

Possession by a Dybbuk

Director: Marcin Wrona
Actors: Itay Tiran, Agnieszka Zulewska, Andrzej Grabowski, Tomasz Schuchardt, …
Category: Horror

The Golem (1920)

12 November 200229 June 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Artificial Creature of Clay

Director: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
Actors: Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmanova
Category: Horror

The Golem (2018)

8 August 20208 August 2020

Rating: ★★★

Artificial Creature of Clay

Director: The Paz Brothers
Actors: Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan, Kirill Cernyakov, Brynie Furstenberg, …
Category: Horror

Killer Sofa (2019)

10 July 202010 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Possessed Recliner Chair

Director: Bernie Rao
Actors: Piimio Mei, Jed Brophy, Nathalie Morris, Jim Baltaxe, …
Category: Horror

Noah (2014)

12 April 201423 October 2019

Rating: ★★½

Biblical Legend

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Actors: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, …
Category: Fantasy

The Ouija Exorcism (2015)

15 March 201811 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Malevolent Spirit Trapped in an Ouija Board

Director: Nick Slatkin
Actors: Ben Morrison, Michael Palladino, Laura Kirchner, Branden Smith
Category: Horror

The Possession (2012)

31 August 201220 May 2020

Rating: ★

Occult Box/Possession

Director: Ole Bornedal
Actors: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis, Madison Davenport, …
Category: Horror

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

6 August 200130 July 2021

Rating: ★★★★½

Tomb Raiding Adventures

Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies, …
Category: Fantasy

The Seventh Sign (1988)

26 January 201430 August 2018

Rating: ★★

The Biblical End of the World

Director: Carl Schultz
Actors: Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jurgen Prochnow, Peter Friedman, …
Category: Horror

Simon Magus (1999)

22 May 200119 December 2021

Rating: ★★★

Orthodox Jewish Village/Visions of the Devil

Director: Ben Hopkins
Actors: Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend, Rutger Hauer, Sean McGinley, …
Category: Fantasy

The Unborn (2009)

5 May 20109 July 2021

Rating: ★★

Haunting/Possession

Director: David S. Goyer
Actors: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet, …
Category: Horror

The Vigil (2019)

17 December 202117 May 2022

Rating: ★★★½

All-Night Vigil With a Possessed Corpse

Director: Keith Thomas
Actors: Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Lynn Cohen, Malky Goldman, …
Category: Horror

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