Dybbuk Box: The Story of Chris Chambers (2019)

PC3's Horror and Exploitation Movie Scale of Awesomeness!

You know what would be super cool? It would be super cool if someone made a film amateur documentary-style, where they set up cameras inside a house and tried to catch ghosts goofing off and causing problems. Then all moviegoers would be shocked beyond belief when ghosts started flickering lights and slowly swinging doors back and forth and shit!

Yeah, that’s basically what you get with Dybbuk Box: The Story of Chris Chambers.

The concept of a dybbuk box is actually kind of cool—it typically involves an old box or wine cabinet haunted by a malicious spirit, an idea stemming from Jewish mythology. This film has nothing much to do with that, except, I suppose, the meaningless note in the box that’s written in Hebrew.

Chris Chambers (according to IMDB this is in fact the actor’s real name), with home video cameras rolling, goes on the “dark web” in search of a dybbuk box, because supposedly they’re all the rage on YouTube. Lucky him, he finds one that is not for sale but for trade. He spends about a minute explaining that the box he is getting is for trade rather than for sale. He makes a big point of this. And then . . . we watch as he clicks the ‘Buy’ button on the screen, with a price tag of $250 right beside it . . .

Any-hoo, the box arrives in the mail and from there anyone that’s ever seen a found footage film can write the rest. I take that back. Most people would probably attempt to have the protagonist seek out a resolution to his ghost/demon problem. Oh yeah, and it would actually be pretty difficult to write a worse ending.

The EMF meter goes wild! There’s uneven static on a little radio gadget that Chris Chambers somehow instantly translates to speech! There’s spooky happenings abound while he tries to sleep at night! It’s everything and less you can find on one of those ridiculous ghost hunting TV shows.

Honestly, the best thing about Dybbuk Box is that it’s only sixty minutes long. Sigh.

PC3’s Horror and Exploitation Movie Scale of Awesomeness!

Gore - 0

Special Effects - 2

Nudity/Sexuality - 0

Wow Factor - 0

Acting - 2

Fear Factor - 4

Story/Plot/Originality - 1

Cinematography/Atmosphere - 2

Sound/Music - 3

Fun Factor - 1

A 15 PHEMSA. Is that a new low? That Goth movie scored right around there too. Dybbuk Box: The Story of Chris Chambers is bad and not original at all. I give a lot of leeway to micro-budget movies. But I have to be able to see love in it’s creation. I don’t see that here. Hell, if all else fails, throw in buckets of fake blood and a nice sex scene. Nope, none of that in this flick. If you want to torture someone for an hour, it’s on Tubi.

Even the poster fucking sucks!