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- 2016
- R
- Epic Pictures Releasing
- 1 h 34 m
- 2016
- R
- Epic Pictures Releasing
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Two American girls (Yael Grobglas and Danielle Jadelyn) on vacation follow a mysterious and handsome anthropology student on a trip to Jerusalem. The party is cut short when the trio are caught in the middle of a biblical apocalypse. Trapped between the ancient walls of the holy city, the three travelers must survive long enough to find ...
- 2016
- R
- Epic Pictures Releasing
- 1 h 34 m
- 2016
- R
- Epic Pictures Releasing
- 1 h 34 m
JeruZalem
45
4.7
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Summary Two American girls (Yael Grobglas and Danielle Jadelyn) on vacation follow a mysterious and handsome anthropology student on a trip to Jerusalem. The party is cut short when the trio are caught in the middle of a biblical apocalypse. Trapped between the ancient walls of the holy city, the three travelers must survive long enough to find ...
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
45
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
45
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
A few sub-plots get lost...but this offers a satisfyingly large-scale demonic incursion as glimpsed from the streets.
The niftily claustrophobic use of actual Jerusalem locations offers a nice holiday from the more familiar backdrops favored by the POV genre.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
4.7
20% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
60% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
20% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
4.7
20% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
60% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
20% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Fresh and genuine story, good acting, nice effects along with beautiful views of the historic city make a very good film for horror fans. Watch it ! .
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La vi recién y la verdad la encontré bastante interesante y entretenida para el género de metraje encontrado, no es una película de 10 pero para mi estuvo muy bien para pasar un rato en la noche, tiene buen ritmo y una ambientación que hace recordar a Así en la Tierra como en el Infierno pero en Israel en vez de Francia, y a Terror en Chernobyl por los jumpscares, esta última una de mis favoritas.
Resta puntos el final obvio de la mayoría de este tipo de películas, personajes simpáticos pero desechables y el conflicto de fondo que apenas si es mencionado.
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The creepy evocativeness of its superbly utilized setting...and the well-realized creature designs make it a more than respectable horror effort. The haunting final shot alone makes it worth the price of admission.
The movie’s occasional stabs at political commentary never quite pay off. Nor can the writer-directors, brothers Yoav and Doron Paz, fully sustain the film’s novelty into the second half, when the script reverts to timeless, tired monster-movie tropes.
JeruZalem is just a wobble-a-thon with incessant screaming and a predictable trajectory for its leading ladies, even if the final, arresting image of a malevolently transformed skyline makes one wish a more enticing, original road had led there.
The filmmakers score half a point for at least avoiding the old “hero-who’s-constantly-filming” device, but fail to add anything else to the proceedings, except, perhaps, the movie’s unique setting.
Not much substance is buried beneath the irritating style.
Bootleg Cloverfield is probably the best description for this movie. The effects, characters, really everything in this movie is sub-par, except for Omar. I love Omar, such a cool guy.
I don't have anything else to say, it's not really scary, I don't know if that was supposed to be, but I, who doesn't watch any horror movies, didn't find it scary. One thing I do like, though, is the attempt at making a full movie from the first-person perspective, although it gets broken sometimes. If you want a similar but better experience, I recommend you Cloverfield or any good Zombie movie of the recent years, this one's kinda "meh".
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The sight of Jerusalem might be pleasing, but the premise is as old as the archaic city and not even the new installment of glasses can rejuvenate the tired gimmick.
Regardless of one's faith, almost everyone can agree that Jerusalem possesses a strikingly beautiful view. Using it as the setting is already a surefire way to enhance visual and it's the best feature of "Jeruzalem". It also opts for smart glass gimmick which can be a nifty addition at times, however the first person endeavor in horror genre is a bland and tired one, a spectacle many others of its peer has done better.
The magnificent environment pays dividend early on, it instantly produces more scenic atmosphere than other mockumentary. One can make a family video of the place and it would still look pretty captivating, but adding horror segment is another matter entirely. The on-screen characters are team of painstakingly predictable tourists and a couple of equally unremarkable locales.
On the course of the trial, they will bump into stereotypical corny situations such as quarantine zone, giant monster appearing out of nowhere and "who's bitten" accusations. Nearly everything has been done before and in greater quality. A few of its original scenes are incredibly stupid, showing a mentally disturbed man running around in biblical costume, riding a bike or mumbling incoherently in close up or at precarious time.
After the promise of the great city and its opening premonition scene, it utterly falls down in usual dark alleys, literally in caves with shaking motion. It's hard to form relationships with the characters since they often react over zealously or trying too hard to fit themselves in the mold of overused dramatization of horror genre. It becomes tiresome at the latter half rather than inspiring.
The choice of vista is splendid, it might have been a nice ad for gadget too, but as far as horror goes, it's merely an average showing.
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I like the story line and it would have been really good if this is NOT a "footage found" type of movie! i give 5 stars instead of 7. Can they stop making "footage found" movies? it's really giving me a grieve.
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Jesus, had enough after an hour of sightseeing, clubbing, shopping and other boring **** they were doing in the movie. There are better, more interesting real life YT movies from the city. Pure crap.
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Production Company
Mifal Hapais,
Epic Pictures Group,
Paz Films
Release Date Jan 22, 2016
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
Tagline On Judgement Day, hell shall inherit the Earth.
Awards
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Dracula Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
• 1 Nomination