Mary Had a Little Lamb opens with the titular Mary (Christine Ann Nyland) singing the nursery rhyme while a battered, bruised woman rests on her lap. Leaning heavily into its The Texas Chain Saw Massacre inspiration, Mary and the young woman sit down for a gruesome dinner punctuated by the arrival of Gaston Alexander’s Lamb, a visually compelling yet narratively inert hulking killer. He grunts and dismembers the guests as Mary cheers him on (she’s his mother).
Cue Carla (May Kelly, uncannily resembling Lindsay Lohan, vocal fry and all), a cold-case podcaster in need of a win. Her dated cases have hemorrhaged viewers, and boss Pete (Mark Sears) gives her just a week to find something more recent or risk losing the show. Never mind the cold case conceit, he wants something new, even though Carla correctly tells him new cases aren’t cold cases. Nonetheless, a serendipitous news reel sends Carla and her podcast crew off to the Warp Woods to investigate a series of disappearances over the years.
Mary Had a Little Lamb is an American horror film directed by Jason Arber and starring May Kelly, Christine Ann Nyland, Gaston Alexander, Mark Sears, Gillian Broderick, Harry Boxley, Danielle Scott, Charlie Esquér, Lila Lasso, Elliott Eason, Rina Cheung. The screenplay was written by Jason Arber.
Mary Had a Little Lamb (2023)
Directed by: Jason Arber
Starring: May Kelly, Christine Ann Nyland, Gaston Alexander, Mark Sears, Gillian Broderick, Harry Boxley, Danielle Scott, Charlie Esquér, Lila Lasso, Elliott Eason, Rina Cheung
Screenplay by: Harry Boxley, Sarah Josepha Hale
Production Design by: Lee Akehurst
Cinematography by: Mike Brindley, Vince Knight
Film Editing by: Oan Hostench
Art Direction by: Jasmine Ebony Thomas
Makeup Department: Jessica Martin
Music by: Stuart Cowan
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Uncork’d Entertainment
Release Date: October 3, 2023
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