
The Vigil(2020)
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.



Robin Groves
Lauren Cochran
Christopher Loomis
Mark Felton

Michael David Lally
Daniel Griffith

John Carradine
Col. LeBrun
Bill Rowley
Frank Beasley
David Tabor
Abner Welles
Patrick Farrelly
Dr. Webb

Bobo Lewis
Catherine Beasley

June Berry
Saphire
Ann Varley
Gwen
The Nesting is a horror, mystery film released in 1981 exploring themes of haunted house, agoraphobia, ghost. Directed by Armand Weston, it stars Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, Michael David Lally. A New York writer of gothic fiction finds her mansion full of ghosts from a brothel massacre.
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