JeruZalem screens Wednesday 18 November, 9.15pm, Odeon Swiss Cottage, 96 Finchley Rd, NW3 5EL 03. The girls are as fun-loving and careless as you could wish, so it never really looks as if it will end well for either of them, but don’t let that put anyone off visiting the Holy City – and seeking out the extraordinary alleys, tunnels and walkways where the film is so lovingly shot. This may be a zombie frightfest complete with Biblical quotes, but if you’re familiar with Dracula and other vampire movies, you’ll recognise elements here – the handsome young man who falls in with the two female buddies, the fatal decision to stay in a spooked Holy City (think ‘let’s take the shortcut through the graveyard at nightfall – what harm can it do?’) the flightier of the two falling victim first and scenes in an asylum designed to scare the viewer witless too, if you’re not already thoroughly spooked by winged zombies and violent exorcisms. Winner of the Audience Award and Best Editing prizes at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.The Paz brothers (Doron and Yoav) bring zombies to Jerusalem in an original film that may well scare you – if you don’t feel too nauseous viewing a wildly wobbling Old City of Jerusalem through the Google Glass Jewish American Princess heroine Sarah wears, a gift from her Dad to take on her first trip to Israel. Told entirely from the perspective of a character wearing next-generation digital glasses, filmmakers Doron and Yoav Paz use this first-person camera trick to heighten the confusion and terror, while Jerusalem’s narrow alleyways and eerie primitivism serve as the perfect backdrop for this cataclysmic vortex of unholy terror. Mass panic ensues when demonic winged creatures are unleashed from the gates of hell, sending Sarah and company into an underground labyrinth in search of safety, while above, Jerusalem’s religious leaders race to combat the spreading infection.

Their vacation is cut short as mystical warnings manifest as terrifyingly real. Trapped between the ancient walls of the holy city, the three travelers must survive long enough to find a way out as the fury of hell is unleashed upon them.

The party is cut short when the trio are caught in the middle of a biblical apocalypse. There, the trio hooks up with an affable Arab local and a pair of Israeli soldiers. Two American girls on vacation follow a mysterious and handsome anthropology student on a trip to Jerusalem. On the way over, their plans change when a handsome anthropology student (Yon Tumarkin) charms them into going to Jerusalem. Sarah (Danielle Jadelyn) and best friend Rachel (Yael Grobglas) embark on a trip to Tel Aviv for sightseeing and fun in the sun. Young American tourists visiting Israel are trapped at the center of a biblical apocalypse in JERUZALEM, a supernatural thriller that maximizes the Old City’s rich atmosphere for nightmarish hyper-visceral effect.

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