Abstract This chapter surveys the trajectory of dybbuk possession in world cinema over the past nine decades, from Michał Waszyński’s 1937Dybbuk to contemporary horror films and documentaries. In Jewish tradition, the dybbuk is the soul of the dead that enters a living body. Popularized by S. An-sky’s modernist drama The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (1914), the dybbuk has evolved from a figure...