Wednesday when I posted about all the movies and films, I plan to see in theaters during October I missed one that had nearly passed by unnoticed in the crush, Lamb.

Lamb appears to be a folk horror film set among the windswept terrain of Iceland. It stars Noomi Rapace and Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson as a grieving farming couple who discover and adapt a strange and unsettling changeling in a desperate attempt to assuage their sorrow.

I fully expect Lamb to be a film that deals in symbolism, imagery, and the power of what is left unsaid rather than a run-and-scream sort of horror. Rotten Tomatoes is currently running a 40 point deficit between critical and audience response a pattern most often seen with artistic, experimental, and challenging films. (As an example, Robert Eggers’, The Witch (2015) one of my favorite recent horror films runs a 31 point deficit.)

Lamb is an A24 Studios release. A24 has released a fair number of interesting, thoughtful, and challenging films including such unusual fare as Under the Skin, Locke, Ex Machina, Moonlight, Uncut Gems, and Midsommar to list just a few from their quite eclectic catalog. I am quite looking forward to Lamb, which opens this weekend, but we are seeing next Sunday.