About Face - The Lamb of God

Two decades before the animals of Black Sheep run amok, comes this Sunday night horror about a couple trapped in the countryside as the sheep start getting restless. In between encounters with a cheerful butcher and a man of God, we learn that New Zealand has undergone revolution: anyone who farms or harms animals is now branded a criminal. Directed by Costa Botes; scripted by poet and lawyer Piers Davies, who co-wrote Skin Deep (plus cult movie The Cars that Ate Paris, with acclaimed Australian director Peter Weir).   

The film was sparked off initially by a report of a ram that killed a man; it butted him to death basically. And at the same time there was another incident of a couple who were walking by the river in Waikato I think it was, when another killer ram came along and butted the husband into the river, and wouldn't let him out.

– Filmmaker Costa Botes on the inspiration for The Lamb of God, in the 1995 documentary Godzone Sheep

Key Cast & Crew

Costa Botes

Director

Bridget Ikin

Producer

John Maynard

Producer

Piers Davies

Writer

Shailer Cottier

As: Vicar

Teresa Woodham

As: Deborah