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The Sacrament
Why this pick
Like Red State, it turns a seemingly reckless visit into an unnerving encounter with a charismatic extremist community, using escalating dread and a blunt, volatile realism.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2011 1h 28m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A grim, escalating thriller that shifts from domestic friction into disturbing cult-adjacent menace, with the same willingness to make violence feel abrupt and destabilising.
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The Invitation
Why this pick
It builds comparable unease around a closed gathering, ideological pressure, and the fear that social politeness is concealing something much more dangerous.
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The Strangers
Why this pick
For Red State’s isolated-setting anxiety and merciless tension, this offers an equally spare, grounded-feeling siege nightmare driven by helplessness rather than spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Travis (Michael Angarano), Jarod (Kyle Gallner), and Billy Ray (Nicholas Braun) drive to meet a woman named Sarah (Melissa Leo) in response to an invitation for group sex. Along the way, they accidentally sideswipe the parked vehicle of Sheriff Wynan (Stephen Root) as Wynan is engaged in sex with another man. Wynan returns to the station and tells his deputy Pete (Matt L. Jones) to go and look for the vehicle that hit his.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Michael Parks
Pastor Abin Cooper
Michael Angarano
Travis
Kerry Bishé
Cheyenne
Nicholas Braun
Billy-Ray
Kyle Gallner
Jarod
John Goodman
Joseph Keenan
Melissa Leo
Sara
James Parks
Mordechai