The Sacrament
Two journalists set out to document their friend';s journey to find his missing sister. They travel to 'Eden Parish,' a self-sustained utopia. At the center of this small, religious, socialist community is a mysterious leader known only as 'Father.' As their friend reunites with his sister, they realize that people are not as happy as they seem to be.. What started as just another documentary shoot soon becomes a race to escape with their lives.
20 April 1980, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
21 December 1977, Marietta, Georgia, USA
19 June 1981, Dublin, Georgia, USA
3 July 1977, Dothan, Alabama, USA
4 January 1988, Augusta, Georgia, USA
18 May 1983, Savannah Ga
4 April 1983, Newark, Delaware, USA
6 December 1985
August 24, 2015
What some may see as "slow and uneventful storytelling" I see as "subtle and masterfully sustained suspense."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.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 ...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.March 16, 2017
West also proves that horror can draw from real-world scenarios and give us surprisingly profound moments.June 26, 2014
West's found-footage structure doesn't always entirely make sense, but it's easy to forgive "The Sacrament" its flaws.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 23, 2016
Genuinely creepy and upsetting, the picture showcases West's ability to make even a tired subgenre marginally fresh.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 06, 2014
The tension fizzles as The Sacrament narrows into predictability, indulging every cliché of found-footage filmmaking and Jonestown-styled cult apocalypticism.December 07, 2014
Unimaginative shocker.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.