![]() She called Kevin, begging him to come back to the store. When she went to investigate, glass started breaking. When Jane stepped away to answer the phone, she heard a noise, and knew something was wrong. She had spent hours in the basement alone before, even to the point of being able to walk throught it in the dark, but never had she felt that sensation of being watched. Jane Howerton, Kevin's sales assistant, was tidying up the basement before opening one day when she got the feeling something was watching her. Inside, Kevin found some odd trinkets that he chalked up to being the items of a sentimental old woman, and didn't think anything of the box beyond it being an old wine cabinet. When he broke the clasp, the doors opened. When everything was stowed in the store's basement, Kevin went to work on the brass lock that held the box shut. Even though Kevin is Jewish, and knew what a dybbuk was, he took the box and other items from the sale back to his store. He won a lot that contained hundreds of dollars of items for the store, including a locked wine cabinet that the late woman's granddaughter called 'The Dubbuk Box". He found an estate auction of items from a Holocaust survivor who has passed at the fine old age of 103. Kevin Mannis was searching for items for his antique store. Paranormal Experience: A wine cabinet carrying a malevolent spirit However as found footage horrors go, it at least is filmed competently and is watchable.Subject Names: Kevin Mannis, Jane Howerton, Ida Mannis, Brian Grubbs, Brian's roommate Sam, Jason Haxton, Sophie It makes it all feel like a waste of time. Dybbuk Box: True Story of Chris Chambers does not deliver on this at all. These movies need a big finish to pay off investment where very little happens. The biggest disappointment though comes in the flat finale. Sound familiar? Sure, it’s a little different but cut from the exact same cloth. One particular scene sees Chris standing and staring at the camera for hours. The attempts to scare are subtle and would be worthy of praise if we hadn’t seen it done many times before. If there is one flaw in his acting, it is his muted reaction to some of the paranormal events that occur around him.Īs a wannabe Paranormal Activity, it’s to be expected that the film’s pacing is slow. Sure, a lot of his motivation and behaviour is pretty suspect but that’s a writing issue rather then an acting issue. ![]() She briefly pops in for a scene so the bulk of the film is carried by Chambers. There are just two actors, Chris Chambers and Sarah Bently. Not a problem as we are watching a movie but don’t try to tell your audience it’s real when it’s clearly not. ![]() However, it goes completely out the window later on. That might be believable at first when Chris is talking to the camera about the dybbuk box. Of course, it claims to be based on real events. Filmed with static cameras and one that Chris likes to hold. You see, while the YouTube dybbuk box opening might be somewhat original, it quickly drops all of that for things that go bump in the night. It’s hard to watch and not just think it’s ripping off a far more successful film series. Written and directed by Joseph Mazzaferro, this found footage horror was heavily inspired by the likes of Paranormal Activity. Did he unleash something demonic when he opened the box? Over the next few weeks, strange occurrences begin to happen around his home and his health begins to deteriorate. He finds one on the ‘dark web’ and opens it live. Wanting to get in on the popularity of the opening of dybbuk boxes on YouTube, Chris Chambers decides to get one himself.
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