Mary Had a Little Lamb

Rhys Frake Waterfield had a hand in this but i only just saw it recently. I kind of passed it up by accident and found it on ebay. I am very easily curiosified or so. So i had to see it. Killer Sheep? Please. Thought it might be like Black Sheep. Close. I love, love the 2 Killer Pooh Bear movies, very much. So the "little lamb" is quite large, quite large. So his mother was a woman and his daddy a sheep? Not how its said in the movie but okay women aren't raped by men and have half human half sheep. But whatever, i went with it. Poor kills. Story was fair. 20$ budget. The ending cuts off. Not near as good as the blood & hunnys.

I recently viewed the UK slasher 🇬🇧 Mary Had a Little Lamb (2023) on Tubi. The plot follows a podcast team facing termination, desperately seeking their next big story to save the show. Venturing into the woods, notorious for historical murders and recent disappearances, they stumble upon a mysterious mansion where they encounter a welcoming host named Mary, who offers to guide them to what they're looking for...

Directed by Jason Arber (Divide by Zero), the film stars May Kelly (Pterodactyl), Christine Ann Nyland, Gaston Alexander (Vikings: Battle of Heirs), and Mark Sears (Wolverine vs Deadpool).

Mary Had a Little Lamb capitalizes on the success of "Winnie the Pooh: Milk and Honey." The villain sports an impressive costume, delivering some solid kills. While there's gore, most of the kills lean towards entertaining over greatness. The protagonist bears a resemblance to Lindsay Lohan, and Christine Ann Nyland's portrayal of Mary is commendable. Despite its simplistic storyline, the film offers plenty of enjoyable moments and captures the essence of classic slasher films.

In summary, Mary Had a Little Lamb proves to be a fun addition to the emerging fairy tale horror genre. I rate it a 5/10 and recommend it to fans of this emerging genre.

Okay, I'm starting to believe that there's a factory someone in Britain which effectively has a 'production line' which churns out low budget horror films based on source material related to children fairy tales. I'm a fan of horror flicks in general and don't mind the odd low budget if the movie makes up for it with other qualities. And not I've seen a fair few on a well-known streaming service which all basically have the same cast, the same location and, as mentioned, very loosely based on a children's nursery rhyme.

Now, if all those qualities don't unite them - they're all also pretty dire. However, this one was actually decent (and I use that word loosely!) enough to keep me entertained for the duration. But, don't get wrong - it's no masterpiece, even in terms of B-movies.

If you didn't know what the film was called, you'd probably never guess it was based on a nursery rhyme. You'd probably just think it was called 'Poodle Maniac' or something, as the killer runs around with a giant mutated poodle's head on him. Or at least it looked like that particular breed of dog. Unless anyone can tell me what other animal it was supposed to be?

A group of podcasters... do you care? Do you really need to know what the reason is that means yet another group of people are stranded in the middle of nowhere (this time in England) well out of the reach of mobile phone range, but just in reach of a mother/son nut-job combo. You won't care about the characters - two of which make up both halves of the most awkward and unlikely couple I've seen on screen in a long time. The others all just have weird accents like they're English trying to do an American accent, or vise versa.

About the 'best' cast member is the screwy mother, Mary. She chews up the scenery like you've never seen. Not a great actress, but at least memorable among the cast - I'll say that. And the gore's not bad either. It's not amazing in as much as none of the kills are particularly inventive, but at least they look realistic (as realistic as when you've just been killed by someone dressed as a half human/half farm animal).

In terms of horror B-movies I have definitely seen worse. Many I end up turning off within the opening twenty minutes. This one was bad, but it was watchable in a bad sort of way. Does that make sense?

Trying to boost its flagging ratings, a true-crime podcaster enlists her crew to look into a case where several people have disappeared in the local woods and goes off to look into the case, but when they arrive find the culprit to be a strange woman and her hulking masked son killing everyone they come across.

This was a massively entertaining effort with a lot to really enjoy about it. One of the finest aspects here is the stronger-than-expected storyline that takes a few cues from the iconic nursery rhyme but goes off into an intriguing spin on its own. The idea of the podcast show looking for their own boost to their numbers and finding a story ripped from the headlines that they can investigate is a solid enough idea that lights a fire on them to do it with the ultimatum to fix everything. This causes the group to stumble into the clutches of the psychotic family as the mysterious woman and equally psychotic lamb-masked hulking son arrive to be offsetting before the turn that reveals them to be the cause of the disappearances gives everything a solid start to things. That comes to the forefront with this one providing a series of gruesome and graphic ambush scenes with the terrifying killer being used quite effectively. The opening where he ruthlessly chops a victim to pieces like a dinner carving in front of a screaming victim strapped to a chair at the table is a fantastic touch to get an idea of the brutality in store, much like the shock ambush in the house where he takes out one of the team members. Later scenes where it takes out the amorous couple in the house, delivers a great ambush at the disabled car parked in the woods, or chases another victim through the woods bring about some incredibly fun scenes that set the stage for a wild finale featuring a dark diner party filled with brutal deaths and some shocking revelations about everything that's taking place. The reveal about the finale is rather well-handled here and has a lot to like. Being a fun spin on the titular rhyme involving how their deranged relationship makes it possible for the twisted family dynamic to work quite well to explain the lack of attention they have and the way they operate together which is all pretty much given beforehand before getting spelled out in grand detail in the finale. Granted, this is entirely way too cheesy to be taken seriously, especially with the low budget on display this one has, and it causes this section to be quite silly and goofy. That so much of this one section is used from other films being repeated again speaks slightly to the repeated nature of this concept being used in the genre so to bring this up again is a bit to hold this down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

I was pleasantly surprised by this horror flick! I am always looking for a new slasher movie! This wasn't your typical slasher movie, which made me relatively pleased. I would definitely watch it again! There were a few spots that made me cringe, jump, question human sanity, and laugh! I would tell people to give it a chance, and keep an open mind as you do so! What I liked the most is that something like this could actually happen! The final twist took me by surprised. When I looked into the movie at first I wasn't sure what to think, but after hearing from several of my close friends to watch it I decided to rent it and see for myself. I am planning to buy it!