The Sacrifice Game

Uma hora e meia de más atuações no filme, em que nenhum personagem realmente sabe o que está a fazer, e muito menos sabe-o a diretora, que concebe uma história potencialmente interessante sobre assassinos satanistas que invadem um internato feminino durante o Natal, de maneira terrivelmente sem graça e sem ideias. A atmosfera, a tensão e a estilização da época são inexistentes, e as tentativas esporádicas de humor são forçadas. Não entendo as críticas positivas da crítica estrangeira. (08/10/2023)

The Sacrifice Game is a very artificial attempt at wannabe cool horror set in 1971. The whole thing feels so studio clean and slick that you don't believe for a moment that you're watching real settings, real characters and real terror. Add to that the tragic overacting of most of the actors involved and it feels like an amateur performance converted into film form. It's a film that's only fit to be stuffed into the video library of some second-rate streaming service, which is where it will end up. Seeing this in a genre film festival alongside works that can do wonders with a comparable or much lower budget and can look realistic with their retro setting is a death sentence for this mechanical and annoying crap. (17/10/2023)