The Sacrifice Game

Nada de nada (2023). Gastón Haag. Spain. 16 min

A supermarket where little seems to happen, and the workers have little to say. But it could all change drastically with a new colleague… Or, as the title suggests, will nothing at all happen again?

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The Sacrifice Game (2023). USA-Canada. 100 min

• Direction: Jenn Wexler.
• Production: Philip Kalin-Hajdu, Albert I. Melamed, Todd Slater, Jenn Wexler, Heather Buckley / Blackvale Films.
• Screenplay: Jenn Wexler, Sean Redlitz.
• Photography: Alexandre Bussière.
• Music: Mario Sévigny.
• Edition: Arthur Tarnowski, Mathieu Bérubé.
• Cast: Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Gus Kenworthy, Madison Baines, Dereck Jones, Georgia Acken, Chloë Levine.

Jenn Wexler has guts. And a number of prestigious awards. She won the John Cassavetes at the Independent Spirit Awards, for example, for her boldness in producing Ana Asensio's Most Beautiful Island (2017), a wonderful work about an undocumented girl. But Jenn is also a lady of horror. The Ranger (2018) sent a shiver down the spine of audiences at the Boston Underground Festival, and now The Sacrifice Game (an intriguing blend of three sub-genres: housebreaking murderers, girls' boarding school Gothic and Christmas bloodbath) was chosen by the audience as the best Canadian film at Fantasia 2023. Watch out for the poster, created by Brutal Posters.