human sacrifice theme
The act of killing humans, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a ritual is featured.
27 total · 6 major · 21 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror6x05 | major | It fell on Nida to murder three people to prevent the world ending in a nuclear holocaust. The killings were explicitly characterized as human sacrifices in the story. |
| movie: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) | major | It turned out that Mr. Cochran was hatching a nefarious plot to sacrifice millions of children on Halloween. This he endeavored to achieve by selling Halloween masks all across the USA that would kill any wearers upon seeing a TV commercial that was to be broadcast on Halloween night. |
| movie: Once Upon a Time... (1990) | major | Every year the citizens offered up every year their most beautiful girl in order to appease the monster and save the city from destruction. |
| tftc1989e5x09 | major | Professor Finley and Reggie nearly tricked Stella into becoming the next sacrificial victim of the mummy Ramseth. |
| tz1985e1x11a | major | William explained that years ago, a person chosen to be sacrificed was spared and the town fell on hard times. Now the lighthouse wanted a substitute or the hard times will come again. The story ominously concluded with Dr. Barrows evidently being sacrificed to the lighthouse god. |
| tz2002e1x42 | major | To countermand the Aztec curse and bring back the sun, the students had to sacrifice a human. |
| ahh2x27 | minor | In the film that was screened by the studio executives, a man was sacrificed to the Devil in the culmination of a black mass. |
| ahp5x17 | minor | In his monologue, Alfred Hitchcock spoke wistfully of reviving the practice of human sacrifice in Ancient Aztec tradition. |
| ldr2019e4x08 | minor | A Nazi officer sacrificed several priests as part of an occultist ritual to summon a demonic creature. |
| movie: Alien vs Predator (2004) | minor | It was uncovered that the ancient Antarctic civilization had practiced human sacrifice. In particular, they ritually infected themselves with Alien parasites, and in so doing created worthy prey for Predator hunters. |