If not the most interesting (read: weirdest) filmmaker working
right now, Yorgos Lanthimos has to be near the top of the list, just between
Dogtooth and 2015’s The Lobster. So his
next offering, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, is obviously
one of our most anticipated movies of the year. Especially as it’s been
described as a revenge horror. And this first trailer only makes me with is was
in my eyeballs right now.
A24 continues to straight up destroying shit. Good
Time is fantastic and hits soon, and Sean Baker’s The Florida Project is the 2017 movie most likely to make me weep openly.
(They also have The Disaster Artist, How to Talk to
Girls at Parties, and Under the Silver Lake, among
others, in the pipe.)
Normally, the maudlin cover of a ubiquitous pop song in a
trailer irks the ever-loving hell out of me, but in this instance, I’ll allow
it. A young girl singing Ellie Goulding’s “Burn” fits with the strange,
sinister, discordant vibe The Killing of a Sacred Deer puts
down.
When a surgeon forms a tight connection with a teenage
weirdo, things take a sinister turn. That’s the basic logline, though there’s obviously
more going on. Just from what we see in this trailer, it looks like maybe the surgeon
was responsible for the death of the kid’s father and he inserts himself in the
doctor’s life to exact retribution. I can certainly hang with that.
I’ve heard The Killing of a Sacred Deer
described as Lanthimos’ most accessible film to date, and it certainly looks
that way. But it also obviously doesn’t shy away from the odd and off-kilter,
and it appears to delve even deeper into the darkness lurking in his earlier
films. Again, I can definitely fuck with that.
Co-written by Lanthimos and frequent partner in crime
Efthymis Filippou (The Lobster, Dogtooth,
Alps), The Killing of a Sacred Deer stars
Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone (hell yes!), Raffey Cassidy,
Sunny Suljic, Bill Camp, and Barry Keoghan. It opens in limited release on
October 27.
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