A24 is responsible for a number of the most haunting and thought-provoking movies of the last decade, none more so than 2021’s Lamb, which acts as a dark inversion of one classic fairy tale trope. Lamb stars Noomi Rapace as an Icelandic livestock farmer who, in the wake of the loss of her own daughter, adopts a bizarre human/lamb hybrid child with mysterious origins. While it’s classified as a folk horror movie, Lamb isn’t necessarily as scary as it is disturbing. In fact, it resonates more like an ancient fairy tale come to life in the modern day than anything.
