The Killing of a Sacred Deer2017
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
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🏆 7 wins & 53 nominations total
The premise
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
Horror Vault's take
A respected heart surgeon's carefully ordered suburban life begins to fracture when a quietly intense teenage boy edges his way into the family's world. What starts as an uneasy friendship slowly reveals a disturbing logic that threatens everything the surgeon holds dear. Director Yorgos Lanthimos crafts a clinical, mythologically charged nightmare where social facades crumble under the weight of past sins. The dread builds not through chaos but through eerie inevitability.
Content: Disturbing Psychological Tension, Graphic Depictions Of Bodily Paralysis And Illness, Violence Toward Children, Emotionally Brutal Scenarios, Unsettling Power Dynamics Involving A Minor
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Cast
Colin Farrell
Steven Murphy
Nicole Kidman
Anna Murphy
Barry Keoghan
Martin Lang
Raffey Cassidy
Kim Murphy
Sunny Suljic
Bob Murphy
Bill Camp
Matthew Williams
Alicia Silverstone
Martin's Mother
Herb Caillouet
Ed Thompson (Hospital Director)
Barry G. Bernson
Dr. Larry Banks
Denise Dal Vera
Mary Williams
Drew Logan
Principal
Michael Trester
Elderly Man
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