The Offering

The film is set within a practicing Jewish community and traditional Jewish practices are shown. The narrative revolves around an interesting and unique representation of the Jewish community, utilizing old Jewish folklore and demonology.

The film contains disturbing images. There is a demon, who kills freely and is known for taking children. Characters are murdered and their corpses are shown. Several dead bodies are seen in a morgue. One dead body is shown going into rigor mortis. Several jump scares. A character stabs themself in the heart, before dying a supernatural death. There is a house fire. The film plays on the vulnerability of a heavily pregnant character. A character threatens to punch another.

Use of "piss." A character calls another a "schmuck."

A character is seen smoking a cigarette. The family drink wine with their dinner and alcohol is also consumed at a wake.

Parents need to know that The Offering is a horror movie that cleverly and uniquely uses Jewish folklore as a means to help tell its supernatural tale. There are plenty of jump scares and disturbing images with a demon terrorizing a family, including expectant parents Art (Nick Blood) and Claire (Emily Wiseman). The demon torments the characters psychologically as well as physically, with the idea being that it survives by taking a life for a life. The violence can be graphic at times. It includes a man stabbing himself and, given the film is set in a funeral home, there are several corpses on display. Though the film falls into some horror cliches, it always feels affectionate in its exploration of Judaism and demonology. The film looks at the differences between traditionalist religious values with a more modernized take, as Art and his estranged, more conservative father, Saul (Allan Corduner), struggle to see eye to eye. But the pair do attempt to reconnect, to understand their respective differences, and move past them.

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