Film Review – Sacrifice (2021)

Perhaps those jonesing for something in the same vein as 2019’s “Midsommar” might be the right audience for “Sacrifice.” Adapting a short story by Paul Kane and crediting H.P. Lovecraft as a storytelling influence, writer/director Toor Mian and Andy Collier attempt to summon a spooky mood of remote Norwegian evil involving the presence of a cult and psychological pressure applied to two Americans new to the area. “Sacrifice” doesn’t emerge with much authority, with the helmers aiming to achieve more of an unsettling viewing experience than an overtly violent one. The end result isn’t thunderous, with Mian and Collier going the slow-burn route to chills, but they still come up short with any sort of fear factor. There’s style and atmospheric churn, but the feature doesn’t deliver where it counts the most, taking the long way to an unsatisfying destination. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com