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Mena Massoud's "The Sacrifice Game" Trailer Released


Tue 14 Nov 2023 | 01:17 PM
The Sacrifice Game
The Sacrifice Game
Yara Sameh

Shudder has released the official trailer for "Aladdin" actor Mena Massoud's upcoming horror movie "The Sacrifice Game".

In "The Sacrifice Game", two teenage girls are stuck at their boarding school, the Blackvale School for Girls, over the holidays. 

They make the mistake of letting four strangers in for Christmas, only soon to discover that they're a demon-worshipping cult intent on summoning a creature from beyond, a fit achieved by a few human sacrifices, however, the girls aren't going to make it easy for them. 

The two Blackvale students will be played by newcomers Madison Baines (1UP) and Georgia Acken (Circuit Breakers). Their teacher will be played by Chloe Levine (The OA); Olympic skier and American Horror Story: 1984 star Gus Kenworthy will appear as her handyman boyfriend. 

The quartet of cult killers will be portrayed by Mena Massoud (Aladdin, Reprisal), Olivia Scott Welch (Fear Street, Lucky Hank), Derek Johns (The Boys, Essex County), and Laurent Pitre (Future Man). 

Director Wexler was excited to subvert Massoud's Disney prince image: "We think of him as this sweet charming guy, this Disney hero. I thought it would be so fun to play with those expectations, and to twist them, and to make him really evil. Mena was so excited to go on that journey." 

The Sacrifice Game premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival early this year and was well-received. Wexler has been working on the pic for over a decade; in addition to directing it, she also produced and wrote the script with her partner Sean Redlitz.