Hanukkah

Hanukkah (2019)

The night Hebrew came home!

A group of Jewish teens are getting ready to party for the holidays but are in for a Festival of Frights. With the help of a wise rabbi, they deduce that the murder victims have violated Judaic law and that their only chance at survival is to embrace their faith.

Date of release
2019-12-25
TMDB
2.7 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 46m
Genres
Horror
Director
Eben McGarr

Casting

Interesting facts

Hanukkah is a 2019 American independent slasher film written, directed, and produced by Eben McGarr. The film stars Charles Fleischer, Sid Haig, Caroline Williams, P.J. Soles, and Dick Miller. The film is notable for being the first feature-length horror film to cover the holiday of Hanukkah, and for featuring the final on-screen performances of Haig and Miller before their deaths in 2019.

Production

Director Eben McGarr had been curious about Judaism and the festivities of Hanukkah before directing this film, despite having grown up in a Catholic household, and had noticed that there was no horror film centered around the titular holiday, saying: "I'm like inundated with Jewish culture [from] my friends and everything.

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