| Movie DescriptionCasey Beldon has nightmarish hallucinations of strange-looking dogs and an evil child with bright blue eyes. While babysitting Matty, her neighbor's son, she finds him showing his infant sibling its reflection in a mirror. Matty attacks Casey with the mirror and tells her, "Jumby wants to be born now."
Casey's friend Romy tells her of a superstition that newborns should not see their reflections for at least a year because otherwise they will die soon. Casey's eyes begin to change color; a doctor asks if she is a twin, and explains the change as tetragametic chimerism and heterochromia. Her neighbor's infant dies, supporting the superstition.
Casey's father admits that she had a twin brother who died in the womb when her umbilical cord strangled him, and whom he and Casey's mother had nicknamed "Jumby". She begins to suspect that the spirit haunting her is the soul of her dead twin wanting to be born so it can enter the world of the living.
Casey meets Sofi Kozma—whom she later learns is her grandmother—who explains that as a child she had a twin brother who died during Nazi experiments in Auschwitz during World War II. A dybbuk brought the brother back to life to use as a portal into the world of the living. Kozma killed her twin to stop the spirit, and now it haunts her family for revenge.
Kozma refers Casey to Rabbi Joseph Sendak, who can perform a Jewish exorcism to remove the dybbuk. He does not believe her until he sees a dog with its head twisted upside down in his synagogue. The dybbuk kills Kozma, and Casey and her boyfriend Mark—who both see the spirit after it also kills Romy—realize that it is getting stronger.
Sendak, Mark, Episcopal priest Arthur Wyndham, and other volunteers begin the exorcism, but the dybbuk attacks them and several are wounded or killed. The spirit, having possessed the priest, chases Casey and Mark; he kills Wyndham but is also possessed. Casey stabs Mark in the neck with a Star of David necklace Kozma gave her; Sendak arrives and he and Casey complete the exorcism. The rite draws the dybbuk out of the human world, but Mark falls and dies during the separation.
Casey mourns her boyfriend but wonders why the dybbuk became active in her life now. She learns that she is pregnant by Mark, with twins. |
