The horror film “The Demon’s Grasp” will be released in theaters on January 11. Immerse yourself in a funeral home confronted by a demon.
Start the year with a shiver! The horror film The Demon’s Grip is released this Wednesday in our cinemas. Directed by Oliver Park and directed by Nick Blood, Emily Wiseman and Paul Kaye, the feature film is a mix between The Jane Doe Identity and The Vigil.
While expecting their first child, Claire and Arthur decide to renew family ties. The young couple move into the dilapidated undertaker’s business run by Saul, Arthur’s father. The latter is part of the Hasidic Jewish community.
But the arrival of a mysterious corpse will make them rock in horror: the remains contain a supernatural entity, Abyzou, who once released, wants to possess the couple’s future child. Faced with this demon, no one is safe…
The Demon’s Grip takes up the themes of possession films by mixing them with Jewish tradition. Since William Friedkin’s The Exorcism, horror cinema has seen the number of possession films exploring Christianity explode. But recently, these films have begun to diversify and to take an interest in other religions, notably Judaism. After The Vigil, The Golem and Hanukkah here is The Demon’s Grip, a clever and amazing horror film.
The director Oliver Park, who signs here his first feature film, manages to create a frightening atmosphere, in particular thanks to the first scene of the film which plunges you immediately into the bath and to that of the autopsy.
And the music composed by Christopher Young, fits perfectly with the feature film. The composer has already sung the soundtracks of Urban Legend, Operation Swordfish, Spider-Man 2 & 3, Down to Hell and Sinister.
Millennium Alternate poster of “Demon’s Grasp”
Who is Abyzou?
Abyzou is a female demon. In Near Eastern and European folklore, she is responsible for miscarriages and infant mortality and is said to be driven by envy as she is said to be infertile.
Its most complete literary representation appears in the compendium of demonology “The Testament of Solomon”attributed to the King of Israel, Solomon of Jerusalem and dated according to scholars to the 1st century AD.
Abyzou has already appeared in several horror films, including Possessed by Ole Bornedal, Slender Man by Sylvain White, The Seventh Day by Jusin P. Lange and Abyzou: Taker of Children by Jordan Pacheco.
Demon’s Grasp hits theaters January 11.