‘Darkly imaginative and brought to life by a pair of striking central performances, Lamb shears expectations with its singularly wooly chills’

A sheep-farming couple in rugged rural Iceland receive what they interpret to be an unexpected gift from nature to soothe the pain of a lingering loss in Lamb. But nature sees things differently in Valdimar Johannsson’s wild and weird folkloric drama, laced with brooding genre elements that veer into horror and a vigorous jolt of WTF humor. The stunningly assured first feature will put the director on the map in ways not dissimilar to Robert Eggers’ The Witch. The two films share certain tonal elements, notably a steadily building dread conjured out of long silences, an eerie loneliness and a bold grasp of the dark mysteries of human-animal relations.

Directors(s): Valdimar Jóhannsson

Production Year: 2021

Genre(s) Horror

Runtime: 107m

Cast: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson

Cert: 15