The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Something very creepy is happening to Colin Farrell , Nicole Kidman and their folk in the young house trailer forThe Killing of a Sacred Deer , the latest film from acclaimedThe Lobsterdirector Yorgos Lanthimos . Killing of a Sacred Deerplayed incompetition at this twelvemonth ’s Cannes Film Festivaland came away with a prize for Best Screenplay for Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou ( tied with Lynne Ramsay forYou Were Never Really Here ) .
InKilling of a Sacred Deer , Colin Farrell plays a middle surgeon who takes a orphic vernal man ( Barry Keoghan ) under his wing and introduces him to his wife ( Kidman ) and child ( Raffey Cassidy and Sunny Suljic ) . When Farrell ’s family begins exhibit outre symptom , the straight horrible nature of the situation is unwrap to Farrell and he is hale to make a wicked choice .
A new trailer forKilling of a Sacred Deer(viaA24 ) afford us a taste of the picture show ’s unnerving tincture , with one of the blurbs teasing it as an " outrageous revenge saga . " The cartridge holder is prevail by an a capella vocal performance by Cassidy , as she sings Ellie Goulding ’s " Burn " while fittingly mysterious prototype impulsion by , teasing the motion picture ’s story of psychological threat and eccentric retribution . A bearded Farrell and a taken up - looking Kidman seem incapacitated to do anything as the creepy Keoghan ( fresh off his memorable appearance in Christopher Nolan’sDunkirk ) visits his mystic retribution upon them .
The raw poster for the celluloid enamour the same chilly sense of dread that permeates the trailer , as you may see below :
With its news report of a mystic stranger infiltrating a family and unleashing psychological horror , kill of a Sacred Deerseems to bear more than a overhaul resemblance to Darren Aronofsky ’s upcoming filmmother ! . Compare the chilling tone of the prevue above to thetrailer formother!and the similarity seem to heighten , thoughmother!seems to hint at more of an over - the - top classic repugnance movie experience whileKilling of a Sacred Deersuggests something more restrained and Kubrickian . Each film in its own way promises a boldness - rattling experience , give fans of irksome - building psychological repulsion a lot to appear forward to this fall .
The Killing of a Sacred Deermarks the 2nd collaboration between director Lanthimos and star Colin Farrell after their work together on the strange dystopiancomedic allegoryThe Lobster . Their new movie together looks much less capricious than that one , which starred Farrell as a single man give 45 day to find a partner or he would be turned into a lobster ( Yorgos Lanthimos never shies aside from an improbable premise , as hiscult classicDogtoothalso demonstrated ) .
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