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Firstly, I don't mind slow-building horror, (so don't assume "this person just doesn't like that there weren't more jumpscares and cheap thrills!") For example, I loved "Hereditary" and the way all the foreshadowing and symbolism made sense in the end. Random events turned out to not be random. It was one of those films that became more impressive on the second viewing "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" was the opposite of this. There was no explanation for a lot of the weirdness or for why the characters acted the way they did. It was like someone decided "I want to make a weird, uncomfortable movie about the Greek tragedy" without actually giving an account for why things were so weird Only Martin was supposed to be psychologically disturbed. And yet all the characters acted in strange ways on at least a few occasions in which no mentally sound human would act. Like why would Kim still want to be with the boy who was trying to murder her and her family? "Well, if you do some mental gymnastics, the dad kind of killed them by killing Martin's dad". But for real, even if Steve 'started it', Martin was still clearly disturbed. Why would Kim want to be with him after seeing his nature? There were three main things that should have had explanations: --SPOILER START-- 1. How did they get away with killing Bob? Their house was in a nice, quiet neighborhood with other houses right next to theirs. Neighbors would have heard the four / five gunshots and called the police. Bob went to school. Teachers and the principal would have noticed his absence. The police would have started an investigation into how and why this boy went missing, and the gunshots would have immediately made the family a prime suspect The ending made it look like it was all over: Martin got the sacrifice he wanted, and the family could move on. In reality, at least Steve would have been imprisoned for murder. There was no explanation as to why this didn't happen. The consequence of murdering Bob was just a huge loose end 2. The family's reaction to the death: basically there was none. Kim seemed perfectly happy about everything and smiled at Martin in the end. It would have made sense if she was a sociopath or if she hated her brother. But since she claimed to and acted like she cared about him earlier, why she was so nonchalant about his death made no sense Same with Anna especially, since Bob was shown as being her favorite throughout the film. There was no explanation for all of their sudden blunted affect. Why did none of the characters act like regular humans? It was either weirdness just for the sake of being weird, or the creators did a poor job of depicting how real people in their right mind would have responded to the whole situation. They all acted like sociopaths or autistic people. It would have been fine if there were some reason for it. But there wasn't, and Martin was supposed to be the only person with mental issues --SPOILER END-- 3. Martin randomly had the power to make people sick and heal them with his mind. It's amazing the amount of reviews saying "it's creepy because it's something that could happen in real life!" Um, no, probably not. Did they miss the very important fact that Martin is apparently some kind of psychic? That element was just random, since there were no other supernatural elements and no foreshadowing. It just seemed like the creators right at the end were like, "okay, how is this kid going to be able to make these people sick, and then just heal them when he wants to? How would he have access to or know about a poison that does something like this? What poison would have the potential to bring someone to the point of death, and yet be able to be reversed immediately at any point before the person dies?" "Meh, that's too hard. Let's just give him magic powers instead"