The Sacrament
In this story, we present a series of strange events, as two journalists document their friend's journey to find his lost sister. Perhaps the only decision is to travel to that strange place, where they travel to the 'Garden of Eden', the utopian city. The journalists find that there is a group of outsiders living there. In the midst of this religious and socialistic community, there is a mysterious leader known as the 'Father'. Things may seem to be contrary to the expected where when their friend meets with his sister, they realize that people are not as happy as it seems.
4 January 1988, Augusta, Georgia, USA
14 March 1987, Detroit, Michigan, USA
11 November 1980, Virginia, USA
6 December 1985
5 July 1981, USA
19 June 1981, Dublin, Georgia, USA
25 November 1981, Florida, USA
21 December 1977, Marietta, Georgia, USA
January 01, 2015
Although this film is classified in the horror genre, it plays more like a suspenseful drama. This film shows that director Ti West has the potential to move beyond the horror genre, as so many other directors have done before him.
December 07, 2014
Unimaginative shocker.
September 06, 2014
An overwhelmingly unoriginal thriller. "The Sacrament" borrows heavily, if not totally, from the 1978 Jonestown Massacre. But, it can't get the chills that even a bad documentary on Jonestown could give.
June 23, 2016
Genuinely creepy and upsetting, the picture showcases West's ability to make even a tired subgenre marginally fresh.
June 06, 2014
The Sacrament may not be a good movie, but it has enough virtues - enough gripping, well-put-together moments - that it made me reconsider my opinion of West as a director.
March 16, 2017
West also proves that horror can draw from real-world scenarios and give us surprisingly profound moments.
June 06, 2014
The tension fizzles as The Sacrament narrows into predictability, indulging every cliché of found-footage filmmaking and Jonestown-styled cult apocalypticism.
June 13, 2014
The first half is a cautiously dread-inducing tour de force... The second half, however, when all hell breaks loose a little too quickly, is the disappointment.
August 24, 2015
What some may see as "slow and uneventful storytelling" I see as "subtle and masterfully sustained suspense."
June 12, 2014
Everything that happens is what you'd expect, and the choice of subject and the modifications West has made to the generic conventions don't add much to the suspense or thrills.
June 06, 2014
Gives enough unsettling atmosphere and upsetting gut-level shock that this viewer didn't mind too much all the stuff he wasn't getting ...
June 26, 2014
West's found-footage structure doesn't always entirely make sense, but it's easy to forgive "The Sacrament" its flaws.
