Very best movie i ever watch

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Excellent, a Must See

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is actually the first Ti West movie I have seen. I notice that almost all of his films have decent ratings on IMDb so there is obviously some talent behind him. I can also confirm this will not be my last film of his because 'The Sacrament' was very good. It gets off to quite a slow start, setting things up for later on, but it never drags or feels dull. Then the second half kicks off and boy does it make up for lost time. The levels of violence were not toned down in any way and I really respect that in a film.The only gripe I have with this film is the found-footage aspect. I love found-footage films but there didn't feel like any need to make this one. It only really felt like it hampered the film and constrained them in certain ways. My guess is that they had committed to the cameraman accompanying the journalist angle and felt it would be too strange to have someone recording but the audience never seeing their footage. Fair play in that respect I suppose but I still don't think it helped the film.Otherwise though there isn't a lot to criticise the film for. It does what it sets out to do very well. There are obviously some real-life cases very similar to this film so seeing it is very interesting. A good effort by all involved. Bring on West's next film I say.

Doesn't make sense, this film is a complete and total pile of rubbish. Mr West you should be embarrassed that you released this film. I am a huge fan of valley of violence and VHS so what happened here is beyond me. I'm actually lost for words I cant explain what is so bad with this film as there is nothing good about it........ Doesn't make sense, this film is a complete and total pile of rubbish. Mr West you should be embarrassed that you released this film. I am a huge fan of valley of violence and VHS so what happened here is beyond me. I'm actually lost for words I cant explain what is so bad with this film as there is nothing good about it........ had to copy and paste as there is nothing else to say about this homemade shite pie.

Already out there that stands as legitimate information. Try reading "Raven,"try viewing a quality documentary and understanding the historical context from which this "movie" came from. I'm sorry but people really died in this horrible ordeal and it clearly wasn't a film. Sometimes spending 4m on a project is just a bad idea outside giving work to actors and film crews. It's not a mystery that opening weekend seemed to bring in less than $550 USD. This effort would have been better served by the creators simply retelling the original story perhaps from a different view point. I thought it was in poor taste to put up that 167 lives were lost and that only two survived. Try over 900 with no movie stars involved. 3/10 was for how things looked at the outset. Don't pay any money for this.

...and even that doesn't typically besmirch the reputation of the painter, in this case writer/director Ti "V/H/S" West. It's almost hard to believe that "The Sacrament" came from the same guy who gave us "The House of the Devil," a far superior slow-burn creeper. Only viewers who've no clue about the Jonestown Massacre in the late 70s will take "The Sacrament" as anything more than a cheap fictionalization of that event, and West's choice of the "found footage" format does little to illuminate what brought hundreds of people to commit mass suicide on the orders of a tyrannical charismatic madman. The result is unsurprising revelation that can be seen coming a mile away. Disappointing, to say the least. Go for it if you must, but don't say you weren't warned that you'll wish you hadn't. I give you my sacred promise that you have been.