What the hell did I just watch….

Lamb is an Icelandic supernatural…horror movie? Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) are sheep farmers in the middle of nowhere. One of their pregnant sheep gives birth to something extraordinary and the couple decide to raise it as their own child. Ingvar’s brother, Pétur (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson), moves in with them but is disturbed by their sheep-child, Ada. At first, Pétur tries to kill Ada. Instead, he somehow finds himself beginning to care for the child. It isn’t until Pétur attempts to blackmail Maria into having sex with him that Maria kicks him out of the house. While she is taking Pétur to the bus, Ingvar and Ada take a walk into the countryside to fix their broken tractor. On the way, they meet Ada’s true father, which devastates the entire family.

I fully understand that foreign films are very different from American films. I have talked about that a couple of times already this year. Lamb is something completely and totally different from everything else I have seen. We aren’t given any explanations for anything. All we get are vague references that we have to extract information from . Even at the very end when we are supposedly learning Ada’s parentage, we see him but that is it. There’s no explanation about what he is or where he came from. He’s just…there.

The one good thing I can say about the movie are the graphics were pretty good. The Ada character is disturbing in a way that she is supposed to be. I’m still not completely sure how they pulled it off. Was it all CGI? Was it a hybrid of CGI and practical effects? Did the use black magic?

Unless you are really into arthouse foreign films, I would recommend you skip this one. There isn’t a lot of drama or action. It is VERY slow. And there is no real payoff. This very well may be on the bottom of my Halloween list this year.