The preview goes big, dishing a lot of scare gags and injects some sweeping music full of chanting to hammer it all home. Just see the film – trust us on this one. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert produced it and Ole Bornedal directs – he helmed the 1994 Nightwatch and its ’97 remake.
The film is a retelling of Los Angeles Times writer Leslie Gornstein’s article “Jinx in a Box” about an antique wooden box purchased on eBay which reportedly had been brought to America by a Holocaust survivor after World War II. The box, supposedly containing an evil spirit, brought devastating effects to a series of buyers. Inspired by these real events, “Dibbuk Box” centers around a cursed relic containing mysterious familial tokens that is mistakenly purchased and its new owner must solve its mystery to save her own family.
