The Sacrament
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: June 6, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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8
Mixed:
12
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
CineVueLeigh ClarkJun 5, 2014
The found footage format has been milked to death of late... but here it's used to fully immerse the viewer, ensuring that the characters speak directly to the audience and, with the removal of the third wall, throws them straight into the lion's den to create maximum discomfort. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeDec 10, 2013
It’s a film that purists might insist isn’t horror in the strictest sense, though this slow-burning investigation of unseemly goings-on at a rural Christian commune is frightening in any genre language. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyDec 10, 2013
It makes savvy use of the well-worn found-footage format, modulating its creepy scenario with considerable skill. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJun 4, 2014
West is a talented director and knows how to build suspense. But here’s a case where the truth wasn’t only stranger than his fiction, it was scarier, too. Read full review
63
Boston GlobePeter KeoughJun 12, 2014
West’s film differs from the “Blair Witch” template in that the footage is never actually “found.” Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJun 6, 2014
West is such a technically accomplished filmmaker, and his cast of semi-regulars so committed to the narrative, that the resultant movie gives enough unsettling atmosphere and upsetting gut-level shock that this viewer didn’t mind too much all the stuff he wasn’t getting, such as intellectual coherence, not to mention any kind of profound insight into the cult hive mind. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)John SemleyJun 5, 2014
The tension fizzles as The Sacrament narrows into predictability, indulging every cliché of found-footage filmmaking and Jonestown-styled cult apocalypticism. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJun 1, 2014
With The Sacrament, director Ti West has bitten off more of a premise than his classically modest barebones approach to horror movies can presently chew. Read full review
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