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The Killing of a Sacred Deer

“A brilliant surgeon is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart.”

2017 · 2 h 1 min
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
DramaHorrorMystery

Cast

Colin Farrell Nicole Kidman Barry Keoghan

Credits

Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos

Plot

A surgeon befriends a teenage boy whose father died on his operating table, and the boy places a curse on the family.

Sinekatalog’s take

Yorgos Lanthimos's cold, deadpan horror takes a Greek myth into a modern hospital. Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan are unsettling, and the film's stiff dialogue makes the cruelty feel inevitable.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (219,532 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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