History Main / VirginSacrifice

* Parodied in ''[[Manga/Bastard1988 Bastard!]]'' as a vampire feeding on captured holy swordswomen bites into one and vomits before starting a rant about girls these days. Seems not all holy swordswomen are as chaste as they're meant to be.

* Parodied in ''{{Manga/Bastard !!|1988}}'' as a vampire feeding on captured holy swordswomen bites into one and vomits before starting a rant about girls these days. Seems not all holy swordswomen are as chaste as they're meant to be.

* Parodied in ''{{Manga/Bastard!!|1988}}'' as a vampire feeding on captured holy swordswomen bites into one and vomits before starting a rant about girls these days. Seems not all holy swordswomen are as chaste as they're meant to be.

* Parodied in ''Manga/Bastard1988'' as a vampire feeding on captured holy swordswomen bites into one and vomits before starting a rant about girls these days. Seems not all holy swordswomen are as chaste as they're meant to be.

* In ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight'', the dark priestess Naneel arranged for her ressurection by placing part of her life force into a baby who would be one of the three main components for the resurrection ritual. But the child fell into the hand of the priestess Old Neese who [[spoiler: raised it as her own daughter Leylia]]. When the resurrection was finally to take place [[spoiler:Leylia]] had long since been married and has a child of her own, which made her unsuitable as the sacrifice. But her daughter, [[spoiler:Young Neese]], would also work. Despite nothing less than the EndOfTheWorld being at stake, the obvious solution never even gets brought up. However Leaf and Ryna do put considerable effort in bringing [[spoiler:Neese]] and [[spoiler:Spark]] together. If we hadn't have two {{Celibate Hero}}es, the entire showdown wouldn't have been necessary.

* In ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight'', the dark priestess Naneel arranged for her ressurection by placing part of her life force into a baby who would be one of the three main components for the resurrection ritual. But the child fell into the hand of the priestess Old Neese who [[spoiler: raised it as her own daughter Leylia]]. When the resurrection was finally to take place [[spoiler:Leylia]] had long since been married and a child of her own, which made her unsuitable as the sacrifice. But her daughter, [[spoiler:Young Neese]], would also work. Despite nothing less than the EndOfTheWorld being at stake, the obvious solution never even gets brought up. However Leaf and Ryna do put considerable effort in bringing [[spoiler:Neese]] and [[spoiler:Spark]] together. If we hadn't have two {{Celibate Hero}}es, the entire showdown wouldn't have been necessary.

* Italian horror film ''Beyond the Door III'' is about a teen on a school trip to Yugoslavia who finds herself destined to be Satan's virgin bride. Fortunately for her a hunky 11th century saint manifests himself and makes her ineligible.

* ''Film/TheMagician'': "The heart's blood of a maiden" is needed for the occult ritual to create human life. A line of dialogue has Margaret saying that she has been Haddo's wife "in name only", confirming that the marriage has been unconsummated and Haddo, the evil alchemist, has kept her a virgin, for the sacrifice.

* The movie ''Film/OnceBitten'' is a comedy about a virgin male who attracts the attention of an evil vampiress. The vampiress needs to feed on virgin (male) blood three times before Halloween in order to maintain her beauty. The victim manages to escape from the vampiress' clutches by convincing his frigid girlfriend (who's been holding him off the entire movie for "just the right time") to finally have sex with him.

* Implied to be what happens to [[spoiler: Alex]] at the end of ''Film/ParanormalActivity4''.

* The Alchemist in ''Film/{{Vidocq}}'' requires the blood of young female virgins to keep [[MaskPower the mask that gives him his powers]] in the mend. The details are unclear, but one escaped subject seemed to have had her tongue cut out, and his laboratory contained mutilated human remains and rags that may have started out as human skins.
* ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''. [[spoiler: A rare male example. Officer Howie's unusual (for his time) beliefs about maintaining his purity until marriage, match the unusual twist that he (the enemy) is considered as the perfect sacrifice by the pagan villagers. Given an extra twist because it wasn't just the fact that he was a virgin that made him so perfect, but the fact that he would willingly refuse sex from an objectively beautiful woman out of virtue. That kind of purity can be hard to find, and Lord Summerisle made it clear that while a child sacrifice was valued, it was nothing compared to "the right kind of adult."]]

* The Tsui Hark film ''Film/ZuWarriorsFromTheMagicMountain'' contains an encounter where the young hero and a master swordsman discover an evil cult that sacrifices virgins. As they are about to fight them, the hero realizes they want virgin males and can detect him.

** In the sequel to the above, ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', Conan saves a virgin princess from being sacrificed... intentionally this time.

* During one of Lori's dreams in ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', Freddy makes her believe her friends wish to do this to her to lure Freddy -- right before he plants a kiss on her. Before settling on Lori, her friends also pass [[StereotypicalNerd Lindermann]] a meaningful look, but he points out that he visited a hooker once. [[spoiler:This is also a hint at Freddy trying to take Lori's virginity later.]]

* During one of Lori's dreams in ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', Freddy makes her believe her friends wish to do this to her to lure Freddy -- right before he plants a kiss on her. Her friends also pass [[StereotypicalNerd Lindermann]] a meaningful look, but he points out that he visited a hooker once. [[spoiler:This is also a hint at Freddy trying to take Lori's virginity later.]]

* During one of Lori's dreams in ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', Freddy makes her believe her friends wish to do this to her to lure Freddy -- right before he plants a kiss on her. [[spoiler:This is also a hint at Freddy trying to take Lori's virginity later.]]

** During a battle with [[BaldOfAuthority Roy]], [[SuccubiAndIncubi Sabine]] mentions that she and [[EvilTwin Nale]] plan to sacrifice his corpse on a desecrated altar. "We should get like nine months of evil happiness by eating your heart. Twelve, if you're a virgin." (Though he's not.)

A subtrope of HumanSacrifice, Virgin Sacrifices typically fall under three main categories:

* In ''[[Film/BloodForDracula Andy Warhol's Dracula]]'', Dracula only subsists on virgin blood (the first two girls he tries to drink from, being non-virgins -- heck, we see them having sex with the ostensible hero -- make him vomit). The "hero" has no qualms about raping the virgin girl to save her, leading to the grotesque sight of Dracula licking her hymenal blood off the floor in desperation.

* 1991 TV movie ''Film/CastADeadlySpell''. In this "FilmNoir"/horror pastiche set in an alternate 1940s Los Angeles where everyone uses magic except private detective [[Creator/HPLovecraft Harry Philip Lovecraft]], a cult leader has fathered and raised a daughter for the sole purpose of being the Virgin Sacrifice during the summoning of a [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow Thing Man Was Not Meant to Know]]. Unfortunately for Daddy and his ritual, she [[spoiler:got around his strictures by boinking an L.A. police officer...]] At that point, [[spoiler:Yog-Sothoth devours the ''father'' for the crime of attempting to sell used goods.]]
* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', a loose adaptation of the Perseus/Andromeda story, put a spin on it. Thetis specifically demanded that Andromeda be "unknown to man, a virgin", as it was restitution not only for insulting her, but an indirect way to gain revenge against Perseus, who had become betrothed to her as a result of sorely injuring [[MamaBear her son Calibos]].
* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' has the Cult of Set sacrificing virgins to a giant snake. Conan saves one by accident (he kills the snake while stealing a jewel just before the virgin jumps into the snake's pit). As she was a fanatic of the cult and a willing sacrifice she instantly calls the guards on him.
** In the sequel ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', he saves a virgin princess from being sacrificed... intentionally this time.
* In ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'', Conan has sex with the potential sacrifice ''before'' she's captured, yet it apparently makes no difference despite it being stated earlier that the sacrifice must be both of pure blood ''and'' a virgin.

* ''Film/DeathRace2000'': Played with. A young woman approaches Frankenstein during an overnight stop, saying she's been selected for him out of a hundred other women from his local fan club. To his surprise she does not want to offer herself to him sexually, but appears the next day standing [[VirginInAWhiteDress in a white dress]] in the path of his racing car so he can [[BloodSport increase his score by killing her]]. [[AntiHero Which he does.]]
* In Dead Gentlemen Productions ''Demon Hunters: Dead Camper Lake'', Chris is taken as a virgin sacrifice to re-summon Duamerthrax the Indestructible. As expected, there are a fair number of "Wait, he's a... naaaaaah," moments.
* In the 1987 film version of ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'', Friday and Streebek disguise themselves and sneak into a secret P.A.G.A.N. ceremony where they witness the masked leader attempting to sacrifice a virgin, Miss Connie Swail. Friday and Streebek disrupt the ceremony and save Swail. The term "the virgin Connie Swail" becomes a RunningGag for the rest of the film.
-->'''Friday''': "Prepare the Virgin?" I don't like the sound of that.\\
'''Streebeck''': Let's just hope they're not referring to you.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'', when Bowen visits Kara's village. His ''modus operandi'' has been to get the residents of different villages to pay him for "killing" the dragon (his buddy Draco) that has started plaguing them out of nowhere. When Kara's neighbors are reluctant to offer money, he suggests they do one of these instead. Naturally, they pick the loudmouthed redhead who's been trying to stir up rebellion. The following exchange then happens between Bowen and Draco.
-->'''Draco''': Who's the girl?
-->'''Bowen''': A nuisance, get rid of her!
-->'''Draco''': Why?
-->'''Bowen''': They're trying to placate you with a sacrifice!
-->'''Draco''': Oh, and whoever gave them ''that'' bright idea?
-->'''Bowen''': Just get rid of her!
-->'''Draco''': How?
-->'''Bowen''': ...Eat her!
-->'''Draco''': Oh please, yuck!
-->'''Bowen''': Are we squeamish? You ate Sir Eglemoor, hypocrite!
-->'''Draco''': I merely chewed in self-defense! But [[InnocentInnuendo I never swallowed]].

* During one of Lori's dreams in ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', Freddy makes her believe her friends wish to do this to her to lure Freddy — right before he plants a kiss on her. [[spoiler:This is also a hint at Freddy trying to take Lori's virginity later.]]

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* Parodied on the cover of ''ComicBook/XXXenophile'' #11, which features [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod the volcano god]] rejecting the virgin sacrifice for failing the most basic criterion.

* In one issue of ''Creator/MarvelComics'' version of ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}, Marlo was attending the grand opening of a comic book store when the store owner revealed himself to be a wizard and, after seeing that she was the only one unaffected by his mind control soda (she'd accidentally spilled it), [[EvilGloating told her that the whole thing was just an elaborate ruse.]] After she pointed out how overly complex his plan was, he asked her to name an easier way to find 100 virgins on a Saturday night in LA. Her answer: "''Star Trek'' Convention."

** Also in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", when the governments of the world decide to crack down on the Trekkie movement for becoming too powerful, they bump them off in the manner befitting virgins. Cue two men tossing Trekkies into a volcano, saying "He's dead, Jim... He's dead, Jim..."

** Subverted in ''Literature/OneGoodKnight''. The townspeople offer up girls as virgin sacrifices to pacify a rampaging dragon, and at least one isn't virginal in the least. (It turns out that the royal wizard summoned the dragon as a means of social control -- and the sacrifices are merely carried away, not eaten).

** ''VideoGame/FatalFrame1'': The Rope Shrine Maiden and the Blind Demon, a pair of {{Miko}}s sacrificed to seal a gate to hell. The last Rope Shrine Maiden, Kirie, fell in love and her ritual ended in failure.
** ''VideoGame/FatalFrameIICrimsonButterfly'': The Twin Shrine Maidens, usually teenaged girls (but sometimes boys) sacrificed to appease a hole into the underworld. [[spoiler: One sister strangles the other to death]].
** ''VideoGame/FatalFrameIIITheTormented'': The Tattooed Priestess, a miko inscribed with mystical tattoos containing the pain of worshipers' loss. When her body was fully covered, she would be crucified in a shrine deep within the temple as a sacrifice.
** ''VideoGame/FatalFrameIVMaskOfTheLunarEclipse'': The Vessel is actually a subversion, as she isn't intended to die during the ritual. Her death is actually a sign that the ritual has failed and ''very bad things'' are coming soon.
** ''VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater'': The Pillars, mikos sacrificed to purify the Black Lake once their PsychicPowers had been exhausted.