It appears that a lot of modern female horror movies involve a group of women being dominated by a charismatic but insane man.
Of course, given the popularity of the 50 Shades of Grey series, it seems it’s not just the favoured subject of their horror stories.
For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known.
Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side.
But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.
Awash in images of primal, dreamlike dread, this provocative fable is a haunting vision of adolescent awakening and revolt.
I have to admit that horror isn’t my preferred style of entertainment unless it’s totally camp like Bruce Campbell’s The Evil Dead, but then I wasn’t the target market for 50 Shades of Grey either.
For those who are the target market for this kind of psychological woman-centered horror, The Other Lamb will be in theaters from April 3, 2020.
