The Sacrifice Game

Name: The Sacrifice Game
Genre: Horror
Released: December 8, 2023
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Bailey Thain, Chloe Levine, Derek Johns, Douglas Kidd, Georgia Acken

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Shudder | Release Date (Streaming): December 8, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Bailey Thain, Chloe Levine, Derek Johns, Douglas Kidd, Georgia Acken, Gus Kenworthy, Laurent Pitre, Madison Baines, Mena Massoud, Olivia Welch, Patrick Kerton

Summary: The Blackvale School for Girls, 1971. It's bad enough that students Samantha (Madison Baines) and Clara (Georgia Acken) can't go home for the holidays, but things take a deadly turn when a gang of cult killers arrives at their doorstep—just in time for Christmas.

Director: Jennifer Wexler

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Slashfilm Matt Donato

Aug 3, 2023

The Sacrifice Game is cool, calm, and collected despite bringing so many subgenres to the party, achieving tonal unity that should please crowds and leave them craving whatever comes next for Wexler and company. Read full review

The Guardian Catherine Bray

Dec 6, 2023

You’re never left in any doubt that The Sacrifice Game is made by film-makers with affection and respect for horror movies – but it might not be the type of horror movie you thought it was at first sight. Read full review

Michael Talbot-Haynes

Jan 17, 2024

This is a unique holiday horror experience that can be enjoyed year after year. Read full review

IndieWire Alison Foreman

Dec 8, 2023

It’s a genre blend that’s delightful, baffling, and surprisingly ruthless in its decisive direction with a holiday twist that isn’t necessary for the plot but certainly ties the zany concept together. Read full review

Brianna Zigler

Dec 6, 2023

Entertaining and surprisingly gory, though not particularly ingenious, The Sacrifice Game is a fairly enjoyable and under 100-minute caper about incompetent demon-worshippers led by Disney’s own Prince Aladdin, Mena Massoud, and the power of friendship between women. Read full review

Screen Rant Nadir Samara

Dec 15, 2023

The plot of the movie works, but the dialogue definitely does not. The style is fine, but the tone is lacking. The Sacrifice Game is a film with the potential to be something cool and eerie, but the final product doesn't live up to that. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Dec 8, 2023

There’s not enough cold sweat ambience here, and that makes it even harder to root for a modestly budgeted chiller whose creators clearly started their project from a place of cinephilic affection. Even sympathetic genre fans will have trouble finding something new about such old hat material. Read full review

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