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Mary Had a Little Lamb
UK 2023
produced by Scott Jeffrey, Rhys Frake-Waterfield for Dark Abyss Productions
directed by Jason Arber
starring May Kelly, Christine Ann Nyland, Gaston Alexander, Gillian Broderick, Harry Boxley, Danielle Scott, Charlie Esquér, Rob Kirtley, Mark Sears, Lila Lasso, Rina Cheung, Elliott Eason
written by Harry Boxley, music by Stuart Cowan, special makeup effects by Jessica Martin, Lamb costume by Mike Peel
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Carla (May Kelly) hosts a radio show about cold murder cases, a show
that struggles with declining audiences, so much so that her boss Pete
(Mark Sears) threatens to cancel the whole show should Carla not come up
with a ratings winner the very next week. So after some deliberation,
Carla finds a missing persons case that's still fresh, and she and her
team - Mona (Gillian Broderick), Ray (Harry Boxley), Shelly (Charlie
Esquér), horny Liz (Danielle Scott) and Liz's boyfriend for the day Matt
(Rob Kirtley) - are off to the woods where for ten years now people have
gone missing with the police doing squat about it. Of course, out in the
woods it's not long before they get lost, and of course there's no
cellphone signal. But then they happen upon a house, and its owner Mary
(Christine Ann Nyland) is nice enough to invite them in, even offers them
rooms for the night. Thing is, there's something odd about the house, and
also about the way Mary talks about her son she only refers to as Lamb
(Gaston Alexander), but Carla smells a story and insists on riding this
through, despite her team's reservations. That night, curiosity gets the
better of Mona, and she decides to take a peek into Lamb's room - to find
a man with a lamb's head who's quick to kill her before escaping the
house. Finding her son gone freaks out Mary and she insists on going after
him together with Carla. Thing is, Lamb hasn't gone far, and while Mary
and Carla are out, he takes care of Carla's team and prepares a gory
welcome for Carla ...
Now Mary Had a Little Lamb is hardly the re-invention
of the wheel, but for a slasher movie it's also lots of fun, thanks to a
nicely structured story that doesn't go right into the thick of things, an
inventive backstory that gives the killers some tragic background, a
certain predilection for the macabre, the absurd and the surreal, and an
emphasis on suspense. And of course violence and jump scares in all the
right places on one hand, a very able cast on the other help make this a
highly entertaining genre ride.
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