Live Poll: Ritualistic Human Sacrifice Cults in Movies

@Breumaster

very good, I included it in the 2nd position and I edited the text:

by a cult — historic or fictional — 

and also removed the face-off status

I guess there were more. Weren't there movies about David Koresh?

And there sure was a movie about the Japanese Ōmu Shinrikyō

Cult. They poisened about 1000 people with Sarin in Tokyo's Subway 1995.

I don't know if you would count it to "cult sacrifices". But if you do,

does Charles Manson also fit?

In one part of the Pirates of the Caribean franchise Jack Sparrow was about to be sacrificed by some natives on an island. But it also seemed they were plain cannibals. I don't know if that counts. Maybe because he was ritually painted by the native tribe.

In Green Inferno some intruders were sacrificed by a native's tribe of the Amazonas.

In King Kong (1976) with Jeff Bridges, a cult tried to sacrifice Dwan (Jessica Lange) to King Kong. But he freed her. Btw.: Fay Wray?

Paranormal Activity (3 or 4 - I guess it was part 3): A religious cult is around to sacrifice people. It was shown at the end of the movie. P.S.: I just read - It was Part 3. The image of Grandma, (intended pun -->) witch broke the spine of the guy with a distant gesture of her hand.

In Hereditary, a cult swears the demon Paimon which sacrifices people in a most frightening way. The demon can only have an effect, because of the believers of the cult. Another image. A third Image.

The Cult in 'Get Out', where white people sacrifice the souls of black people to transfer their soul, personality, whatever into their bodies to cope with illnesses and to survive. What happens to the black souls? The cult members don't care about in that story. It's also a kind of human sacrifice, even though the black body survives. Maybe a more symbolic image? Look.

@Breumaster​  The attempted sacrifice of Dwan by the islanders in the 1976 King Kong is correct.

... They don't make a fuzz about it. It's more in the background, otherwise they're very ordinary people.

@Breumaster​ 

thanks

@mariojacobs​ 

Red State, Kevin Smith made a similar movie with

Waco siege as a model / inspiration and ...

The character Abin Cooper as similie too David Koresh.

Jennifer's Body opens with the attempted sacrifice of Jennifer, but I cannot find a picture of this.

Dragonslayer (1981)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082288/mediaviewer/rm387915520/?ref_=ttmi_mi_21_1

@TheOldJalapenoman​ Could you please describe these 3 cults in a short line each?

@mariojacobs​   Sorry, I never saw your request.  I will try to get on it today.

@mariojacobs​ 

Race with the Devil:  "Frank and Roger and their wives take off for Colorado in a recreational vehicle, looking forward to some skiing and dirt biking. While camping en route, they witness a Satanic ritual sacrifice, but the local sheriff finds no evidence to support their claims and urges them to continue on their vacation. On the way, however, they find themselves repeatedly attacked by cult members, and they take measures to defend themselves."

Apostle:  "The year is 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she's kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built."

Jennifer's Body:  "A small Minnesota town becomes a hunting ground when a botched occult ritual transforms a popular cheerleader into a predatory succubus."

Dragonslayer:  "A King has made a pact with a dragon where he sacrifices virgins to it, and the dragon leaves his kingdom alone. An old wizard, and his keen young apprentice volunteer to kill the dragon and attempt to save the next virgin in line, the King's own daughter"

@mariojacobs​ 

The poll can be re-pushed if you wish to add any of the text that J-Man provided.

@Jessica​ yes, I am intending to do it on sunday.

@dan_dassow​ thanks, but could the native's volcano god religion be considered a cult?

@mariojacobs​ Do you want to keep waiting to include these options or do you consider the suggestion ready?

@Pencho15​ I think the @theoldjalapenoman suggestions are good, I am just not sure about @dandassow the native's sacrifice... but I think it can be considered a cult indeed; not every cult must be evil.

@Pencho15​ Thanks for the tip; I did that, but unfortunately, I’ve already had several images deleted from other lists, everything gets wiped out, not even the description is saved.

@mariojacobs​ Once this is a published poll, if the image disappears, the description will remain visible. That way the voters can identify what the option was even if there's no image, and we can identify what was deleted to replace and repush it.

@Pencho15​ thanks, that's a lot of cults, I didn't imagine there were so many.