In A24‘s latest, a couple’s lives get upended by the bizarre arrival of a lamb-human hybrid. Director Valdimar Jóhannsson, working from a script he co-wrote with Sjón, makes his feature debut with a strange yet earnest Icelandic folktale that tugs at your heartstrings. Especially thanks to its precious little lamb child, Ada. Jóhannsson shared how […]
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[Fantastic Fest Review] Tommy Wirkola’s Zany ‘The Trip’ Puts Its Protagonists Through Intensive Couples Therapy
Tommy Wirkola is no stranger to dark humor. The Norwegian filmmaker has already carved a place in the black hearts of horror fans everywhere with the dementedly wonderful humor in both Dead Snow films and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the latter of which has seen a steadily growing cult following over the years. His […]
[Fantastic Fest Review] A24’s ‘Lamb’ Takes Earnest Approach to Oddball Folk Tale
The opening scene makes it clear that guessing where Valdimar Jóhannsson’s feature debut will head makes for an exercise in futility. The suggestive depravity of it sets up something far more rooted in horror than what transpires. Instead, Lamb plays like a quiet, often bleak folk tale that’s tonally all over the map but approached with an […]
A24 Gives Birth to Doomy and Extremely Weird ‘Lamb’ Trailer; In Theaters October 8th! [Video]
A24 is lighting a fire under the Cannes hype that hailed the distributor’s next arthouse horror film, Lamb, as “batshit crazy.” Today comes the official trailer that’s not only weird as fuck, but also doomy and gloomy, looking like a perfect complement to A24’s The Witch. In fact, it appears as if director Valdimar Jóhannsson was […]
‘Lamb’ Poster Promises to Turn Mother Nature on Its Head; A24 to Premiere Trailer Tomorrow!
A24 fans are licking their lamb chops in anticipation of the distributor’s next arthouse horror film, Lamb, hailed as “batshit crazy” out of the film’s World Premiere at Cannes. Looking like another Biblical drama in the vein of The Witch, A24 shares the first piece of art that shows Prometheus star Noomi Rapace holding the film’s title character […]
A24’s ‘Lamb’ Called “Batshit Crazy” in First Reactions Out of Cannes
Bloody Disgusting has had our eyes on Valdimar Jóhannsson’s supernatural drama Lamb for quite some time now and even shared a first-look at Prometheus star Noomi Rapace in the film last year. The trailer made its way online last week with news that A24 had acquired the Biblical drama that tells the story of a childless couple in Iceland, María (Rapace) and Ingvar […]