![]() ![]() The clip shows clerics from several religions uniting to perform an exorcism of some sort in the Old City, where a dead woman has miraculously returned to life, not quite herself. A reel of faux found footage, identified as being from 1972, gives us our first glimpse of the latter gate. “JeruZalem” opens with an ostensible Talmud quote saying that there are three gates to hell: one in the sea, one the desert, and one in Jerusalem. Shot in Jerusalem’s Old City, the largely English-language genre offering makes clever and unsettling use of a p.o.v. gimmick - most of the action is seen from the vantage point of a character’s Google Glass–like eyewear - until the second half falls back on apocalypse- and zombie-movie conventions about as ancient as the scenery. Those itching to pay a visit to 10 Cloverfield Lane could do worse than take a pit stop at this … well, “Cloverfeld”: an Israeli-produced first-person horror film in which the Days of Awe take on a rather literal meaning for two party-ready American tourists.
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