News > David S. Goyer, Haunted by a Dybbuk

Written by Lucas C Haberstich

Ever the able and prolific screenwriter, David S. Goyer is working on a supernatural thriller between writing superhero movies and it's based on a creature from Yiddish folklore, reports FilmSchoolRejects.  

The film's creature is a dybbuk, which Wikipedia tells us is "a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person… the dybbuk attaches itself to the body of a living person and inhabits it. According to belief, a soul that has not been able to fulfill its function in its lifetime is given another opportunity to do so in the form of a dybbuk."  Sounds like my first college roommate.

Currently untitled, the Universal film will see the ghost of a young boy who died at Auschwitz haunting an 18-year-old girl.  Well, it certainly sounds creepy and with Dark City, the Blade trilogy, Nolan's Batman films, and more under his belt, Goyer has proven himself capable of the dark and unsettling.  The Yiddish horror, the horror.