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4 | ''The Sacrifice Game'' is a 2023 horror movie released on Creator/{{Amazon}}. At an all-girls' boarding school in December 1971, Samantha (Madison Baines) and Clara (Georgia Acken) are staying over for Christmas vacation with their kind teacher Rose (Chloe Levine). On Christmas Eve, however, a murderous cult - led by Jude (Creator/MenaMassoud) and Maisie (Creator/OliviaScottWelch) - breaks into the school. |
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9 | * BoundAndGagged: Everyone throughout the first stage of the home invasion. |
10 | * ConvenientPhotograph: Maisie manages to figure out that [[spoiler:Clara is the demon]] by seeing that she's in every picture in the school. |
11 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Maisie's remark that [[spoiler:Clara looks familiar.]] |
12 | * {{Homage}}: |
13 | ** The group kill the couple in the beginning in a recreation of the home invasion in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. |
14 | ** Both of the "dinner parties" are filmed in homage to ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''. |
15 | * HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The killings occur over the Christmas period. |
16 | * LongHairIsFeminine: [[spoiler:Clara/the demon orders Grant to cut off Maisie's hair, which is apparently an equal offering to the men losing their fingers and ear respectively.]] |
17 | * NobleDemon: [[spoiler:Clara/the demon manages to save Samantha's life, though she does watch Rose die.]] |
18 | * StupidEvil: Maisie - though the rest of group doesn't fare much better - did not consider that [[spoiler:there was possibly more information in the book that she didn't get before being kicked out]], but she still went ahead and killed multiple people. |
19 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: There is one female killer (Maisie) in the group. |
20 | * TraumaticHaircut: Grant cuts off Maisie's hair. |
21 | * TwistedChristmas: The first kill takes place over Christmas carols, while the home invasion itself occurs on Christmas Eve and takes place over Christmas Day. |
22 | * WithinArmsReach: When Jude freaks out Maisie, she hits him with a book and manages to knock him out. |
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