Wtf did i just watched

Heavy sigh. I wanted to love this but the messaging/point of the movie was so muddled that I don't really know what it is. I love a slow burn but this was waaaaay too slow, the slowness I guess supposedly adding meaning where the script did not. I don't blame anyone for loving it but I ended the movie annoyed and antsy.

Giving it a few extra starrs because the acting was very good, the lamb child looked really convincing, and the overall look of the film was quite beautiful.

One of the strangest movies I have seen in a while but also one of the best. Its often disturbing but disarmingly so.

probably contains a lot of mythological even religious? references but I don't like the movie. [spoiler] I couldn't took myself to laugh at the last scene[/spoiler]

Someone actually gave money for this piece of excrement to be made?

Icelandic Eraserhead. Or should I say Ice-lamb-ic?

Every once in a while you have to be taken out of your comfort zone. Lamb is one of those movies which will do that… eerie, captivating, stunning, shocking and unforgettable.

Painful to sit through because of how slow it was. I don't know what else to say. Just think of any slow films, this is 10x slower.

I already knew I was about to watch a strange movie, different from the classic horror films, and so it was. But not that bad.

A movie that leaves you with so many unanswered questions, an ending that leaves you with a "So what? Now what?", devoid of plot-level content other than "Yo there's my daughter with a fucking lamb's head on a human body and this is how we live". For 105 minutes you will simply see nothing.

Nice landscapes Iceland though

4.5/10

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Strange little movie. Iceland has been coming out with some interesting stuff lately.

Sadly I saw a version of the movie without english subtitles. Luckily there isn't much talking to begin with. As far as I could tell there was no talk/discussion about the newly born creature. How it may have come to be. However, this question is answered in the climax of the movie. [spoiler]In the final couple minutes of the movie a goat/human hybrid appears and shoots Ingvar just as Maria shot the mother goat earlier. And the adult creature took his child with him.[/spoiler]

How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!

One of the winners of Sitges in her own right, Noomi Rapace is superb and accompanies us through a tense and oppressive experience, all told as fantastic manners.

Films and Chips Podcast, Episode 10x11

If you liked „The Witch”, or „Hagazusa” you’ll love The Lamb. This is perfectly acted dark folk tale with atmospheric horror elements.

A film that causes uneasiness, in its atmosphere, in its slow pace, in its apparent lack of action that nevertheless hides a lot of background. It's a strange psychological challenge: what looks like madness becomes reality, just as love can turn to rage when maternity wards rival each other. The director builds an echo of constant mourning, even when (apparent) happiness reaches the family. A dark, languid and sad tale that has its roots in the folklore of a dark, languid and sad country.

Do not watch, stupid script, stupid acting, stupid stupid stupid.
This is not even categorize in Horror, just a stupid goat movie.
STAY AWAY
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Lamb is not a horror movie. Please ignore the marketing tacked to this movie and remove any presumption you having going in that this is a "horror" movie. It is not. It is a dark, eerie, sometimes self indulgent folktale about [spoiler]loss, infidelity and guilt. It's about what these things do to a once strong relationship and the people caught in the crossfire, told through metaphor and odd imagery.[/spoiler]
Did I love Lamb? Far from it, but I got exactly what I expected from an oddball, indie-produced movie distributed by A24. It's obtuse, artsy, laden with metaphor and indirect storytelling. It's puzzling and not very clear, asking you to piece things together yourself through your own interpretation to understand what the real meaning behind the movie is. If none of this is singing to you, give it a miss. But if you enjoy the usual A24 affair of watching something, pondering it for a few hours and then hitting up a Reddit thread to confirm/build on your own theories, then Lamb will fit the bill perfectly.

i'll have a different comment for this later after i actually watch it, but i saw the second half of its trailer when i went to see the venom sequel and i'm gonna be honest all i got from it was that rooney mara was possibly cheating on her husband with a goat. sounds like it is very much not that, thankfully.

FEST 2021

Not gonna lie, I slept through most of this but I don’t think I’m ever going to rewatch it and I still feel like I didn’t miss anything so might as well log it. Merry Christmas, I guess!