The Sacrifice Game

Film - 2023

6,0

9.7K

The Sacrifice Game it's a movie with Georgia Acken, Mena Massoud, Olivia Welch, Gus Kenworthy, Chloe Levine Full cast. Directed by Jenn Wexler. Original title The Sacrifice Game, runtime 99 minutes. Genres Horror, Thriller.

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Balkan Castevet

The Sacrifice Game starts off very well straight away, slow-shot and domestic assault with violence shown complete with blood and cut throats. The setting is the 70s, leather jackets but above all it was the seven o'clock period. The film is set almost entirely in 'High School where it is interesting that the incipit is very similar to Payne's recent The Holdovers, Samantha is forced to stay at school during the Christmas holidays together with the teacher Rosie and the mysterious girl Clara. The shots of Clara after the killing are very good of the sect to create a connection or rather a sort of "call". Jenn Wexler's direction knows how to give good shots but it must be written that the soundtrack is a little too generic, it doesn't have a good effect, on the contrary, and also the construction of the tension does not yet have the right mastery. The film focuses on the friendship that will be established between Samantha and Clara, it is also appreciable that the demon was imprisoned by humans and Samantha at the beginning of the film will say that the witch hunt was just a scapegoat that he was looking for the society of the time; furthermore Samantha is left by her family to spend Christmas in the high school so she has a difficult family situation, she has suffered a bereavement, she is therefore "alone" like the demon. However, the film gives a different characterization of the girls present, Samantha has her problems but has "positive" attitudes, the teacher Rosie is friendly, has a boyfriend while Clara is the most enigmatic, very dark, silent. Also Maddison, the girl of the sect, she has an important role in the film, she is the girl that all the male members dream of, she wants to evoke the demon because as a girl she had been approached by a dark book present in the High School. The problem is that the film does not explore the side enough emotional of the girls, the film could have focused more on the fact that the girls who approached the darkness lo Read all

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Christmas break, 1971. Samantha and Clara, two students who are staying behind for the holidays at their boarding school, must survive the night after the arrival of uninvited visitors.