![]() The script for The Other Lamb was written by C.S. Malgorzata Szumowska has already won multiple awards for her movies and has more movies in the making now. She previously directed and co-wrote Elles (2011) starring Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche. The Other Lamb was directed by Malgorzata Szumowska from Poland. Watch The Other Lamb on digital platforms You might know Denise Gough from Colette (2018) or season 3 of The Fall TV series starring Gillian Anderson. That’s probably why she’s considered “broken”. She is “a broken thing” but comes across as stronger than most of the others. In The Other Lamb, she plays Sarah who is a wife that is no longer in Shepherd’s good graces. You might like: Our review of The Invitation here >įinally, I wanted to mention Denise Gough. Also, he was in Karyn Kusama’s amazing horror-mystery The Invitation (2015). He played the oldest brother, Steven Crain, in that amazing Netflix series ( read our review here). Most may recognize him from the early seasons of Game of Thrones, but horror fans probably think of The Haunting of Hill House now. Recommended reading: See all the genre movies and TV series coming to Netflix in April 2020 > You probably recognize Raffey Cassidy from The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) which will be on Netflix in the US from April 5, 2020. The young girl in question is Selah who is played perfectly by Raffey Cassidy, who is just enigmatic in the most unbelievable way. In other words, the girl who will soon go from daughter to wife. Instead, it’s the young girl on the cusp of womanhood. The main character in The Other Lamb isn’t the cult leader, Shepherd. I am appalled and angry but mostly, I want to understand. The daughters are born into this world whereas the wives have made active decisions to become part of it. Małgorzata Szumowska has truly managed to create a sinister environment that seems to be against these women in every single way. And still, it just feels grotesquely creepy to see it play out like a movie. The Other Lamb doesn’t show us anything that we haven’t already seen in documentaries about cults. Also, since there are only women and girls, you can imagine that any boy being born doesn’t last long.įurthermore, since the girls can only be wives or daughters, I’m sure you can guess what happens to the daughters when they grow up. Yes, they are literal sheep to this cult leader. In the case of The Other Lamb, the cult leader is called “Shepherd” because all of the girls (his wives and daughters) are his flock. You are forced to lose any sense of self and obey the leader. ![]() ![]() With The Other Lamb, the focus is on some of the very basic horrors of being in a cult. Yes, there’s that word “horror” again, but anything that deals with cults feels like horror to me. ![]()
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