The creepy new trailer for the horror mystery The Other Lamb dropped nowadays courtesy of IFC Films, beforehand of the movie’s April 3 launch on VOD and in pick out out theaters. The movie, from Polish filmmaker Małgorzata Szumowska, looks like a combination between Midsommar and Waco. It centers on a cult of young women residing manner off the grid in provider to the instructions and whims of Shepherd (Michiel Huisman).
The cult she turned into born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has mentioned. Along with a band of further cloistered younger ladies she lives reputedly unstuck in time, lessen off from present day society in a miles off woodland commune presided over with the aid of way of a person called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark factor. But while her insular global is rocked thru a series of nightmarish visions and worrying revelations, Selah begins to question everything approximately her lifestyles—which includes her allegiance to the an increasing number of unstable Shepherd. Awash in pictures of primal, dreamlike dread, this provocative fable is a haunting imaginative and prescient of adolescent awakening and rebellion.
Huisman, exceptional regarded for his characteristic as positioned-upon elder brother Steve in The Haunting of Hill House and the satan-might also moreover-care mercenary Daario Naharis (the second one) in the final few seasons of Game of Thrones, is tapping into the identical affable, quiet threat he captured in the criminally underseen thriller The Invitation. Raffey Cassidy, who become currently seen in The Killing of a Sacred Deer from Oscar-nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos, moves numerous uncooked nerves within the trailer as her passage out of childhood turns into increasingly more like a tightening noose. She’s sincerely alleged to be Shepherd’s subsequent “bride”, and his sinister nature coupled with Selah’s surreal and horrifying visions appear to be they’re including as much as an uncomfortably annoying horror yarn.
The Other Lamb hits select theaters and VOD April 3.