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Who owns the Dybbuk box, Jason Haxton, agreed to send it to producer Sam Raimi, who had been both interested and reluctant. Raimi laughingly told an Entertainment Weekly interviewer, "I didn't want anything to do with it. I'm frightened of the one thing." He also told the interviewer he was raised in a conservative Jewish home: "You don't learn about debunks when you go to synagogue. I understand the demonic lore from the Exorcist. But what does my faith believe about demonic possession? ... The stories chilled me towards the bone." Jeffrey Dean Morgan felt similarly: "In the research Used to do, I began getting creped out. My girlfriend was like, 'Let's just make sure that we don't actually go near the real Debunk Box.'"
Director Ole Bornedal said, "Some really weird things happened. I've never stood underneath a neon light before that wasn't lit, that of the sudden exploded. The worst thing was, five days after we wrapped the film, all the props burned. This storage house in Vancouver burned right down to the floor, and the fire department doesn't know the cause. I'm not a superstitious man, and I would like to say, 'Yeah, it's just a coincidence.'"
Synopsis: Clyde and Stephanie Brenek see little cause of alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an old-fashioned wooden box she purchased in a garage sale. But as Emus behavior becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the existence of a malevolent force within their midst, only to discover that the box was created to have a dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host.
Cast: Natasha Calis, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Madison Davenport, Grant Show, Matisyahu
