JEWISH HORROR MOVIES

MINNIE THE MOOCHER (1932)
The Fleischer Brothers animate Cab Calloway's Jewish-inflected song into a terrifying fantasy; the resulting short film has become part of the DNA of modern Jewish horror.

THE WOLF MAN (1941)
The film that cerated the modern cinematic werewolf and seems to be a parallel for the rise of Nazism in Germany, a fact that the Jewish refugee screenwriter insists was deliberate.

IT (1967)
Roddy McDowall plays a quietly psychotic curator who discovers the Golem of Prague and mostly uses it to tear down bridges in hopes of impressing a girl.

THE FORBIDDEN ZONE (1980)
Not so much a horror movie as a live-action underground comic making use of horror themes and an early showcase of the band Oingo Boingo; films makes extensive use of the same sort of Jewish details found in Fleischer Brothers cartoons.

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)
John Landis directs a film about two American boys coming to terms with lycanthropy and being undead in a film that features Nazi werewolves and a prominently placed menorah.

THE POSSESSION (2012)
Sam Raimi produces a film based on the supposedly true story of a box sold on eBay that contained a Dybbuk.

WORLD WAR Z (2013)
Bradd Pitt stars in a dilm in which zombies are like a fast-moving worldwide pandemic, including a bravura sequence in the streets of Jerusalem.

JERUZALEM (2015)
An apocalyptic POV horror film shot surreptitiously in the streets of Jerusalem and featuring a terrifying monster: a Jewish person who won't call her parents.