December 12, 2023
Watch: Gus Kenworthy Returns to Acting in 'The Sacrifice Game'
Emell Adolphus READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Gus Kenworthy is back on the silver screen in a new role that is right up his alley. Set to stream on Shudder, "The Sacrifice Game" is a Christmas movie a Satanic twist.
As reported by Entertainment Weekly, the film takes place in 1971 and follows "two girls who are stuck at their boarding school over Christmas, and a gang of killers comes to the school intent on summoning a demon."
Directed by Jenn Wexler, Olivia Scott Welch, Derek Johns, Laurent Pitre, and Mena Massoud (Disney's Live Action "Aladdin") star as the gang of killers.
"We think of him as this sweet charming guy, this Disney hero," said Wexler of Massoud. "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 girls stuck at boarding school will be played by Madison Baines and newcomer Georgia Acken. Wexler also casted Chloë Levine as a teacher and "American Horror Story: 1984" star Kenworthy as her handyman boyfriend.
According to Wexler, she thought Kenworthy, being an Olympic medalist, "embodied this Prince Charming character."
Wexler shot the film spring 2022 outside Montreal at Oka Abbey, and she reportedly "fell in love with on our location scout. I was like this is the Blackvale School for Girls. Within that abbey, there's a lot of different aesthetics already, so we got to build on top of what was already there. It was a one-location movie with lots of locations within that location."
"The Sacrifice Game" is available to stream now. Watch the trailer below.