Well it's that time
again! The 31 days of horror films that
I go through every October. This is the
3rd year of me doing this and I'll admit, there are times that it is a real
challenge to find good films, as I've seen MANY horror films.
So we start off this year
with the movie The Sacrament. (You can find this on Netflix right now.)
We're starting off with the
Cult sub-genre of horror, which I'm a big fan of. Those of you who know my professional work as
the creator of the Pariah Missouri
graphic novels will note that my most recent book 2, The Promised Land is
about a religious cult, so it's a topic that I am very interested in. The Sacrament is also a found-footage film,
which for me is another plus.
We start off very similar to
some other cult films and after I watched it I realized it's almost the exact same story as many of the other Jim Jones movies out there (which reminds me there is
a brilliant doc about the Jim Jones incident; Jonestown Paradise Lost) It isn't until about minute
50 that things start getting horrific, but by then I was bored.
As you can imagine it gets
very gruesome at the end, not in a bloody way but the mass suicide scenes are
pretty rough.
I find it odd that people
thought it would be worth making this film when it's so close to the other
Jonestown films. In fact, there's
nothing really original or different about it.
I would say a much better
film would be Jonestown Paradise Lost (on Hulu) which is a more accurate portrayal
of those events.
Overall, I was hoping for a
new take on the cult sub-genre, but I think Sacrament fell short, I should have
known when above the title it said Eli Roth.
A much better film in the genre is Martha Marcy May Marlene.
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