Cutting Deep Into Horror | The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017): Guilt, Revenge, and Family Horror

A surgeon’s connection to a teenage boy becomes an impossible threat to his family in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (2017). Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi discuss Yorgos Lanthimos’s unsettling psychological horror, with Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan at the center of its cold, increasingly nightmarish exchanges. Cutting Deep examines guilt, punishment and the unbearable choice driving the film, including its deliberately uncomfortable performances. Full spoilers: this conversation goes through the story and its ending.

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