Lamb, A24 is getting edgy again
Lamb just released its first trailer and its bonkers.
The movie, Lamb is another risky feature from A24. A24 is a film company that always takes movie scripts that most Hollywood producers avoid. Their risk always pays off with films like Midsommar, Moonlight, Ex-Machina, and Green Knight. It is a film studio that always rebels against Hollywood cliches.
The film is about an Icelandic couple who lives in isolation with a herd of sheep. Maria (Noomi Rapace ) and Ingvar(Hilmir Snaer Gudnason ) had been childless for years. They found a baby and this gave them hope to have a family. The Baby is a human-sheep hybrid but they still adopted it. A very bizarre premise that sounds like a weird fairy tale but this movie is a horror. The trailer looks more of a drama but this film is an unexpected horror. If you enjoy genre-switching movies like Parasite, This could be something you will enjoy.
Where does this baby come from?
The film reminds me a bit of the movie Splice and the Tv series Sweet tooth. Both movies tackle the science-fiction concept of Human and Animal hybrids. Scientists are banned from cloning humans and making human-animal hybrids. There was a disturbing urban legend though about a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Humans and Chimpanzees have a 98.8% difference in DNA. Tigers and Lions only have a 95.6% difference and Ligers and Tigons already existed in real life. There are already pigs injected with human DNA because they are seen as future organ donors for humans. So the horrors of Lamb could be possible in real life soon.
Lamb has a very haunting mood going on because of the isolation. It is scary not because of Jumpscares but because it’s an Atmospheric way of causing dread. It has slow pacing but it surely delivers because of how disturbing it is.