One: paralysis of the limbs.
Two: refusal of food to the point of starvation.
Three: bleeding from the eyes.
Four: death.
One, two, three, four.
A film by Yorgos Lanthimos requires an open mind in the best of circumstances. The Killing of a Sacred Deer isn’t hard to follow, but there’s also very little about it that benefits from having expectations about what “should” happen, either from a narrative sense or from real life understanding. Even classifying it for this list isn’t easy or obvious. There is little blood or supernatural spectacle. Too sedate compared to a typical Horror/Thriller, but definitely chilling, emotionally upsetting and hard to shake off. The cast display little emotion, and stars Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman pull off the deadpan tone perfectly. This was the arrival of Barry Keoghan and his distanced creepiness. The atmosphere is fragile and uneasy, escalating into pure dread by the end.
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