New Israeli Horror
Published by Rutgers University Press, 2024. 220 pages.
By Olga Gersheson

There is nothing I love more than a doorway that opens up a whole new world to me when it comes to horror cinema. Whether it is a documentary or a book, especially one that its main focus is on a subject of the genre that I’m not familiar with, or maybe know a little, but don’t realize just how little I know. So, when I have the opportunity to venture into that unknown territory, I usually come out excited and anxious to dive into some of that subject matter. All of that encompasses what happened upon reading Gersheson’s book New Israeli Horror.

As I started reading it, I recognized a few titles and even seen a couple mentioned, such as Big Bad Wolves (2013). But then it hit me that several of the titles I had no idea where Israeli films! Nor did I realize the number of films that have come out from Israel in the last couple of decades. Boy did my To-Watch list start to grow.