The Offering

The Offering is a 2023 American horror-thriller film directed by Oliver Park and with a screenplay by Hank Hoffman from a story by Hoffman and Jonathan Yunger, based on the Jewish folktale of Abyzou. It stars Nick Blood, Emily Wiseman, Allan Corduner, Paul Kaye, Daniel Ben Zenou and Jodie Jacobs. Plot An old man conducts a ritual by slaughtering a chicken and hurriedly spreading ash in a circle. His sickly wife appears at the door and tells him to stop, to which he replies "Burn in hell". He starts reading from a book and the letters start to bleed. Then a little girl whispers his name, Yosille, and asks him if he wants to see his wife again, to which he replies negatively. He steps outside the circle, swallowing a dark smoke as his sclera turns black. He then stabs himself with a knife from his back pocket. The demon tries to remove the amulet around his neck to no avail. Arthur (Art) and his pregnant wife come to Brooklyn to visit his father, who runs a Jewish funeral house in a Hasidic community. He and his father, Saul, became estranged after he married Claire, a non-Jewish British food journalist. Saul is welcoming to Art and Claire, wanting to establish a relationship with both of them. Art has an alternative agenda for the visit. He needs his father to mortgage his house to help his failing real estate business. Art volunteers to help his father with a new suicide body that has come in. The funeral home is the basement of their home. Art has a run in with Heimish, who works with his father. Heimish cares for Saul and is suspicious of Art's visit. As Saul and Heimish speak, Arthur prepares the body of Yosille. While preparing the body, the amulet around his neck falls through a drain, releasing the demon which immediately begins to haunt Claire.