Icelandic art-horror is smart, clever and consistently surprising

Blinding snow, heavy breathing from an unseen force: The first few seconds of “Lamb” suggests Liam Neeson has returned for another wintry exercise in human-on-human revenge.But no! There’s nothing predictable or formulaic about this masterly exercise in incremental, calmly framed tension and uneasy human/animal coexistence. Even with a slight misjudgment in the final minutes — […]

Noomi Rapace stars in this creepy story of a couple raising a strange ovine addition to their household

Richard Brody reviews “Lamb,” a horror movie directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson and starring Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason.

Cannes: Valdimar Jóhannsson's first feature is derivative in parts but impressive once its big twist comes together.

From its marketing materials, you'd be forgiven for thinking Lamb is another Classic A24 horror of the Witch and Midsommar mold; far from it.

The new A24 horror movie Lamb, starring Noomi Rapace and directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson and set on a sheep farm in Iceland, has a way with wordlessness.

Noomi Rapace brings a steady but feminine power to the dark Icelandic tale "Lamb," about a couple raising a sheep as if it were their child.

Noomi Rapace adopts a strange newborn in this elevated Icelandic folk horror from director Valdimar Jóhannsson.