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It does take you along but tends to do so slowly.However , you would like it if you stay till the end.They are some scenic places in the movie which would add to the melange.

Midsommar + The Wicker Man + HP Lovecraft = I'm on it!

It's a good movie with potential to be much more. Some good moments, beautiful scenario, good atmosphere, a really great ending, always great Barbara, the main girl does a good job, but, unfortunately the main actor was not that convincing. It's a bit repetitive (too many dreams), but I found it better than most people say and worth a watch.

I usually give up on movies like this after 20 minutes but it felt like it was building to something great and cosmic so I stayed the course.

It doesn't go anywhere, nothing happens and it isn't worth your time.

3/10 for the pretty location.

As a Norwegian I'm offended. I can accept the lovecraftian twist which in no way relates to Norwegian folklore, but the lack of understanding of Norwegian culture, way of speaking or relation between humans are unacceptable. They have too many Norwegians on cast to let this slide. The way they speak (words used) and relate to each other makes the movie utterly unrealistic or relatable. I wish the story was strong enough to disregard its flaws in presenting an obviously unknown culture.

Well, initially I didn't know that the 2020 movie "Sacrifice" was a Lovecraftian movie, so that was quite the nice surprise when that dawned upon me as I was watching the movie.

I hadn't heard about "Sacrifice" before now in 2021, as I had the opportunity to sit down to watch the movie. And it was initially because of the movie's cover and the fact that it had Barbara Crampton on the cast list that I sat down to watch this movie.

The storyline, as written by Andy Collier, Paul Kane and Tor Mian, definitely have some interesting aspects to it, but ultimately the movie settled itself into a slump, from which it never recovered. The movie just went into auto-pilot mode, and it reflected poorly on the movie as a whole. There was just simply too little of any overly interest happening throughout the course of the movie.

It should be said that directors Andy Collier and Tor Mian managed to capture a great atmosphere in the movie and managed to present a storyline that was laced with a sense of cosmic dread, but the ending of the movie was just too predicable and mundane, and that dragged the movie down.

"Sacrifice" has a good ensemble of casted actors and actresses. I do like watching Barbara Crampton in movies, but having her portraying a Norwegian woman was just out of the realm of believable options, especially since her accent was all over the place and never settling on a single specific accent; sometimes it sounded Irish, other times American, and a few times oddly twisted Scandinavian. So it just ruined so much of the movie having her accent fly all over the place.

Visually then "Sacrifice" was adequate. But if you are expecting a movie that is crammed with special effects, where you get to see one or more of the Great Old Ones, then you will be sorely mistaken. Sure, you get to see some nice carved idols and interesting amulets, and even a tentacle or two, but that was about it. So it was somewhat disappointing.

Sure, "Sacrifice" is a watchable movie, but it was ultimately not a memorable movie, nor a particularly great foray into the realm of the Mythos that H.P. Lovecraft created.

My rating of "Sacrifice" ends on a very bland and mediocre five out of ten stars.

Here we have a tale where it's kind of slow at the beginning, then gets a little more dramatic and you're expecting a climactic conclusion...but then you get nothing.

This movie tries to slowly build up to a regrettably foreseeable and deeply unsatisfactory climax. Pretty views only go so far and don't make up for a boring and pointless plot. Go for a walk instead.

Watch this norwegian based mysterious horror thriller since im norwegian, left me in the end with bland feelings the story is short and repetitive dreamlike horror that materialize in a pretty twisted end. and the start of the story you see a bloodcovered panicking lady, waking up her son fleeing their house and hauls a boat to ship them away from something bad and sinister...

its a film with vast fjordlandscapes, narrow roads and rather peculiar inhabitants of rednecks community at an island i guess in the nortern parts of west norway. its grell, rainy and cold as usual and when the 15 years ago fleeing son comes back with his heavy pregnant wife, youll sense that the house is built on an evil lot. so if you come to norway for holyday, stay away from the most desolate firth communities cause they tend to be druide driven or extremely religious with the word of the bible as a guideline...he-he

its a small cast movie a bland of norwegian extras and smaller parts, they do speak english, but i tend to be nauseaus when the american/british actors take a mouthfull of norwegian æ ø å words,terrible and wrecks the film hollistically, almost 99.8% percent of norwegians do understand basic 5000 words vocabulary ... but it made me laugh.

otherwise its a resurgens of repetitive dreams that marks the plot, pretty nice but may become boring for the real horrormystery nerd. productionwise its no much glitches, some of the camera techniques are brilliant, and the musical score feel like a thorn in my eardrum, but it works darn well anyway.

even though i love to live in the lowest /flattest parts of norway where the highest hill is 132 moh and still being a hill when descending i do fall in grace of the natural beauty of norway. so its a film to watch, though not an EMP of extravaganza. so its a small recommend from the grumpy old man

This movie is as entertaining as clipping your toenails. If you really enjoy clipping your toenails you might like this movie. Otherwise skip it.

I love Lovecraftian cosmic horror. I love the madness, the fear, the unknown .. the mystery and the abstract.

I am not convinced that this movie delivers though .. It has some of the imagery of Lovecraftian monsters .. but it lacks all the circumstance.

What i disliked the most was the cast .. the protagonist couple as well as the main antagonist acted in a very unnatural way .. not at all the way "normal people" do.

Especially the communication between the couple was abysmal. They did not communicate - nor had they any hint of a chemistry together.

The other thing that annoyed me was that the Nordic culture was - once again - portrait in such a rediculous way. (i am looking at you, Midsommar)

Now i would say that the story has potential .. but its the potential of a mystery / horror story that plays out in a remote place filled with cultish weirdos - so hardly an original setting.

Compared to "the colour of space", "the void", "the Mouth of Madness", "the prince of Darkness" etc .. this movie certainly feels way too mundane and lazy - never pushing the limits playing it way too safe.

I tried, I really did. The premise sounded good, if a little too familiar.

I thought the cast was okay, and it's always good to see Barbara Crampton back in action.

It's a slow moving movie, albeit too slow for me. (And I don't mind slow moving movies as long as there is a decent payoff.)

So many dreams upon dreams upon dreams. I started to hope a certain razor fingered boogy man would make an appearance and liven things up, but no such luck.

No Freddy Krueger, no surprise ending and a number of questions left unanswered.

What a nightmare indeed.

Could've been something to watch, but extremely bad acting from the main protagonist just ruins any chance at entertainment.

This film does not add up to much. It is great to see Barbara Crampton, an 80s horror goddess still getting work. But this film was very lacking. The writing alone caused the acting to suffer, as well as the story and plot. This was a domino effect that made the whole film suffer. With bad writing the actors never become convincing, then the paper thin story barely staggers along. Without any kind of pay off or money shot of any kind the film very abruptly ends. The whole production seemed to get off on the wrong foot and can barely stand on it's own. I love these kinds of stories however the execution here was a bit poor. Perhaps better production, cinematography and writing could have saved this.

All the characters were stupid and unrealistic had to turn it off

Remember the flashbacks in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where Spike and Drusilla were even hipper and more goth than they were in modern Sunnyvale, but Angel wore an awful wig and spoke with an inexplicably bad Irish accent? It was as if a fifth grade class was performing a play about Lucky Charms, and the only reason you liked it was because it was Buffy's show?

In this movie, Our Lady of 80s Horror Barbara Crampton tries to speak English in a Norwegian accent that makes David Boreanaz sound like Laurence Olivier. It's bad, and it isn't just bad movie bad. It's unintentionally hilarious.

Babs leads a group of Norwegian villagers that want to welcome a young American back home to Norway after his father dies. He brings with him his enormously pregnant wife, who wants to cash in on her father-in-law's estate, and get the hell back home to have her baby. Because it's a horror movie, hubby starts to go crazy and wants to stay in Norway. As lovely as the fjords are, the wife knows something is up and considers leaving anyway.

That's when the Lovecraftian/Wickerman/Midsommar shenanigans start, but by then the viewer is so sick of the movie that Angel and his Lucky Charms accent aren't looking so bad. No one cares who dies, and every moment of this film not showing fjords and mountains is a moment you will never get back.

Go watch Buffy. And, if you really need some Barbara Crampton, watch "Jakob's Wife."

What is wrong with people and all the hate on many of these reviews? The acting is actually excellent the story is just fine and moves right along. People over analyzing is the problem. Just sit back and enjoy the movie and chill out... For cripe sakes!!!

One of the worst movies like ever. You can't really feel for a scene as it becomes a dream. So not real. Then it just ends. Avoid this.

Absolute garbage ending, zero answers or explanations given. Then it just suddenly ends and the credits roll. What?

Had potential 90% through, last 10 mins ruined the movie. It's like the writer just completely gave up and didn't have an ending.

At least we got to see that hot chick naked for a while ;)