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Newlyweds Jonathan Barkan and Ariel Fisher put a Jewish lens on horror films. GEORGE ELKIND CONTRIBUTING WRITER PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX SHERMAN
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any couples have a meet-cute. Jonathan Barkan and Ariel Fisher’s was a literal horror story. The Ann Arbor residents met by chance in 2018, when they were writers and horror film aficionados visiting an all-night shoot on the set of Rabid, a remake of the 1977 body-horror film by cult-favorite Jewish Canadian director David Cronenberg. The movie is about a young woman who turns into a bloodsucking monster. Unbeknownst to Barkan, Fisher was mourning the recent loss of her aunt Claudia, who co-founded the Danforth Jewish Circle, a progressive Jewish continued on page 26 OCTOBER 29 • 2020 25
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