--- title: 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)' type: 'film' director: 'Yorgos Lanthimos' released: '2017-05-22' runtime_minutes: 109 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Horror' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United Kingdom' - 'Ireland' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer-2017' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5715874/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) 2017 · R · 109 min · Drama, Horror, Thriller · United Kingdom, Ireland ## Synopsis The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a 2017 absurdist psychological horror thriller film directed and co-produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Efthimis Filippou. It stars Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, and Bill Camp. It follows a cardiac surgeon who introduces his family to a teenage boy with a connection to his past, after which they mysteriously begin to fall ill. ## Credits - **Director:** [Yorgos Lanthimos](https://cinepixo.com/people/yorgos-lanthimos) - **Screenplay:** [Yorgos Lanthimos](https://cinepixo.com/people/yorgos-lanthimos), [Efthimis Filippou](https://cinepixo.com/people/efthimis-filippou) - **Producer:** [Yorgos Lanthimos](https://cinepixo.com/people/yorgos-lanthimos), [Ed Guiney](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-guiney) - **Director of Photography:** [Thimios Bakatakis](https://cinepixo.com/people/thimios-bakatakis) - **Editor:** [Yorgos Mavropsaridis](https://cinepixo.com/people/yorgos-mavropsaridis) ## Cast - [Raffey Cassidy](https://cinepixo.com/people/raffey-cassidy) as Kim Murphy - [Alicia Silverstone](https://cinepixo.com/people/alicia-silverstone) as Martin's Mother - [Colin Farrell](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-farrell-2) as Steven Murphy - [Nicole Kidman](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicole-kidman) as Anna Murphy - [Bill Camp](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-camp) as Matthew Williams - [Barry Keoghan](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-keoghan) as Martin Lang - [Sunny Suljic](https://cinepixo.com/people/sunny-suljic) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer-2017 Film facts: Wikidata (Q27492140); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.