The Sacrifice Game
USA - 2023
Writing: Sean Redlitz, Jennifer Wexler
Cinematography: Alexandre Bussière
Music: Mario Sévigny
Produced by: Heather Buckley, Todd Slater, Jennifer Wexler, Yannick Sadler
Cast: Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Chloë Levine, Gus Kenworthy…
International sales: Red Sea Media Inc.
Legally restricted to persons over 16
Lenght : 99 min // Ratio : 2.35 // Format : dcpLanguage : English // Subtitles : French
In the early 1970s, during the Christmas vacations, Charles Manson emulants invite themselves into a girls' boarding school, intent on sacrificing innocent students to their demon of choice. But things don't go so smoothly.
Jennifer Wexler's debut feature, The Ranger (2018), already offered aficionados of the discipline a fight to the death between a figure of evil, a priori indestructible, and young people with unsuspected resources. The years separating this first effort from The Sacrifice Game have in no way diminished the director's cruelty and viciousness. Her direction, on the other hand, has gained in confidence and icy beauty, while her sense of rhythm has been boosted by competition-grade amphetamines. The rigor of the production leaves the field open to jouissive performances, a particular art of going off the rails, not to mention first-rate brutality. The horror films of the 1970s have a fine bastard in their hands.