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About Face - The Lamb of God

Television (Full Length) – 1985

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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

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Produced by

Hibiscus Films

Source

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision - TVNZ Collection

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from the New Zealand Film Commission in association with South Pacific Merchant Finance Limited.

Music

Composers Dave Parsons and Rob Winch.

More Information

NZ Film Commission page

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