Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) by Rebecca31 — 04 Nov 2017

The Killing of a Sacred Deer fills you with so much suspense and dread until you finally find your breaking point. The story, gore and a truly eerie performance by Barry Keoghan accompanied by hair-raising music will try its very best to push you to your limits. Going beyond extreme measures to unnerve you, and if nothing else it achieved that no problem. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, so if you haven't experienced anything by this director before it might be a good idea to prepare yourself by watching The Lobster. This is certainly a director you won't forget, his films are so unpredictable and deeply disturbing you either love him or hate him.

At its heart The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a revenge story, so dark and cold everything I like in a film but I found myself very disappointed with it. The monotonous and robotic way all the actors are carrying themselves was the biggest distraction. I couldn't believe anything they were saying or doing as something that would actually happen. As the story reaches some of its pivotal moments none of the characters were responding in a way I believed so I found myself getting more and more annoyed with it. I didn't buy into it at all. Barry Keoghan is definitely the stand out performance, he has an amazing on screen presence. Chilling and will make your skin crawl. A modern day Greek tragedy is what everyone loves to call this but don't worry you'll pick up on that analogy soon enough as the movie takes any opportunity it can to remind you that yes this is a tragedy, this whole situation is so unbelievably tragic, how did we possibly get into this unbearable tragic situation. It gives a new meaning to the word disturbing so if that idea interests you then The really tragic Killing of a Sacred Deer is recommended.