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St. Agatha

2018 · 103 min

A suffocating, grim descent into religious abuse and captivity that keeps you tense and unsettled throughout.

Directed by
Darren Lynn Bousman
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Starring
Sabrina Kern, Carolyn Hennesy, Courtney Halverson
Tagline
Atone for your sins.
Overview
St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair where silence is forced. Ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.

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Directed by
Darren Lynn Bousman
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Starring
Sabrina Kern, Carolyn Hennesy, Courtney Halverson
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • survival
  • faith
  • corruption
  • trauma
Places
  • small town
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror7
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
horror, thriller
Directed by
Darren Lynn Bousman
Written by
Shaun Fletcher, Sara Sometti Michaels, Andy Demetrio, Clint Sears
Starring
Sabrina Kern, Carolyn Hennesy, Courtney Halverson, Seth Michaels, Trin Miller, Lindsay Seim, Jayson Warner Smith, Hannah Fierman
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
103 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
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