"The Offering" - 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movie directed by Oliver Park and Les Weldon, released in January 2023.
It surprised me positively, the story evolves and has surprises.
The Offering involves a Hassidic community. A man (Yosille) since he lost his wife, decided to study occultism, goetia, the esoteric kabbalah and invoke an archangel in an attempt to recover his wife.
But the ritual went wrong and his own daughter died (Sarah). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The man then tries to be possessed by the female demon Abyzou and imprison her in his body, by sticking a consecrated dagger in his chest, and using an amulet.
He made it and died this way. Meanwhile, the body goes to a mortuary.
Arthur (Nick Blood) and his pregnant wife, go to Arthur's father's house, owner of that funeral home, and he helps to autopsy the body, it is then that the demon Abyzou will escape.
All through the movie there are scenes of suspense and the spirit of the girl (Sarah) is seen, and at other times the demon Abyzou.
The ending is unexpected and surprising, I can tell that it is not a happy ending.

Abyzou in folklore, is a female demon that abducts children and causes deaths during pregnancy. The name came from Akkadian Apsu or Sumerian Abzu.

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