If "Lamb" were directed by a British film crew with a shoot now, ask questions later kind of approach who can't get "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" out of their heads, it might have turned out something like "Mary Had a Little Lamb" -- a low-budget horror that takes its name from the nursery rhyme but is really just bog-standard budget fare that just so happens to have a sheep-headed killer in it. Following podcaster Carla (May Kelly) and her crew as they head out into rural England in search of a true crime story that might save their podcast, the movie sends them into the home of hag-like Mary (Christine Ann Nyland), where they soon discover that she and her deformed son have a passion for killing and consuming visitors. There's potential for a good time in this plot (and for a while that looks to be on the cards), but Jason Arber's first feature film is ultimately defeated by its issues. The lighting is bad, the plot fizzles out and the kills are not nearly as graphic and gory as they need to be in this kind of off-the-beaten-path horror. It's not nearly as bad as you'd expect it to be, but it's not quite good, either. May Kelly is great as final girl Carla, though, and I'd like to see her in a higher tier of horror movie in the future.
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