The story
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a 2017 absurdist psychological horror thriller film directed and co-produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Efthimis Filippou. It stars Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, and Bill Camp. It follows a cardiac surgeon who introduces his family to a teenage boy with a connection to his past, after which they mysteriously begin to fall ill.
Setting & tone
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is set in United Kingdom and works primarily in French. Tonally it sits in Drama, Thriller, Mystery, drawing on the conventions of each while filtering them through Yorgos Lanthimos's direction.
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