The Vigil (Featuring Josh Bell)

On the 174th episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell from Awesome Movie Year joins me for The Vigil, a horror movie that finds its inspiration not in Christian and Catholic iconography (like so many horror movies), but in Jewish imagery and a very particular (and very creepy) Jewish ceremony. Puzzle pieces include The Possession, The Exorcist, The Boy and The Evil Dead.

As always, SPOILER ALERT for The Vigil and the movies we discuss!

https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-vigil

Director – Keith Thomas

Writer – Keith Thomas

Starring Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Malky Goldman, Lynn Cohen, Ronald Cohen, Fred Melamed

IFC

Josh Bell is a film critic whose work has been seen in the Las Vegas Weekly, Film Racket and more. Check out his website at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/

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The song at the end of the episode is “Passover This!" from my now defunct jewish-comedy rap group FA-COCK-TA's second album U Tuchus 4 Granted which can be found on all the digital music services including Spotify and iTunes.

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