While movies like JeruZalem are often lumped into the “found footage” genre, that designation is not entirely accurate here, as there’s no suggestion that this is a film that has been recovered, as it were. After a few days of hanging out, sightseeing and partying, the characters find themselves trapped within the city walls as the gates of Hell open and the end of the world begins. Two American girls, Sarah (Danielle Jadelyn) and Rachel (Yael Grobglas) are en route to a vacation in Tel Aviv when they meet Kevin (Yon Tumarkin), who convinces them to accompany him to Jerusalem for good times in the Old City. It’s a choice that adds both novelty and a sense of history to what is an otherwise overly familiar first-person horror film that’s part zombie movie, part Cloverfield, all disappointing. As the reach of the new global cinema trickles down from the blockbusters to even indie horror, we’re getting films shot in countries and locations that are relatively new to genre films, from the United Arab Emirates (in Tobe Hooper’s long-shelved Djinn) to now JeruZalem, not just made by Israeli filmmakers the Paz Brothers, but actually shot in the titular city itself. ![]() ![]() We’re living in an interesting time for horror movies.
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