This film could probably work as an ad for smart eyewear technology which had me interested despite the likely expensive cost and need for voice commands (which I have little interest). They can play music, access GPS, browse the internet (including popular sites like Facebook and Wikipedia), make international calls through Skype, and record everything for future audiences to enjoy. It is nearly an unimpressive generic demon/zombie film, but the smart glasses take it to an impressive new height.Īllegedly comparable to the new Google Glass, Rachel’s generic smart glasses have a range of functions that seamlessly slip in back story, exposition, and character identification as well as add to the creepy atmosphere when they malfunction. It borrows from religious mythology, but the tone of the film isn’t overtly religious.
The city is then quarantined and Rachel and her friends struggle to find a way out. The story is fairly simple Rachel (Yael Grobglas Jane the Virgin, Reign) and her friend Sarah (relative newcomer Danielle Jadelyn) travel to Israel on vacation, meet a guy on the plane, and follow him to Jerusalem where Hell literally breaks loose. The smart glasses make the frequently used “found footage” gimmick more believable while adding a dimension to the storytelling that surpasses other films in the genre. While the film isn’t particularly frightening, the point-of-view footage comes courtesy of one of the latest technological advances that may be unfamiliar to non-early adapters. It’s the end of the world as we know it as the gates of Hell open up in Jerusalem leaving two vacationing American girls trapped and struggling to survive in the latest “found footage” horror film, JeruZalem.