"The Possession" tells the terrifying tale of a mysterious wooden box containing an ancient Hebrew evil spirit, the Dybbuk. In medieval Jewish folklore, the Dybbuk was a transmigrating demon or ...

The marriage of a possession-driven horror film and a wedding comedy initially seems like an odd, opposites-attract union, especially when you add elements of the enduring legacy of the Holocaust in ...

“Demon,” a modern ghost story haunted by the Holocaust, opens with an arrival and closes with a departure. These scenes, each set on a raft gliding on a deceptively tranquil country river, bookend a ...

PARIS – Making good on upbeat festival reception, Paris-based Reel Suspects has rolled out sales on “Demon,” a title made sadly all the more famous by the tragic abrupt death of its director, ...

It was an awful day and I was in no mood for listening; but when I said, “Things couldn’t be worse,” I was jogged out of my rant by a friend who started screaming at me. “DON’T say that!” she yelled ...

The Possession (2012), yet another in a recent deluge of films about demonic possession and exorcism supposedly based on real cases, opened this Labor Day weekend. (I have not seen the movie, so this ...

Reading about dybbuks (spirits of the dead that aim to possess the living) and demons (malevolent spirits that were never human), made me think of damned souls and their alleged ability to possess ...

From ancient Hebrew folklore, the dybbuk is a demonic spirit that inhabits a person’s body and soul in order to get what it wants. American foreign policy is endlessly driven to search and destroy ...

If there had been stand-up comedy in the shtetl, “The dybbuk made me do it!” could very well have been a popular catchphrase. The myth of an innocent person turning to evil because a demon has taken ...

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

PARIS – Making good on upbeat festival reception, Paris-based Reel Suspects has rolled out sales on “Demon,” a title made sadly all the more famous by the tragic abrupt death of its director, ...