About Face - The Lamb of God

Two decades before the animals of Black Sheep ran amok, this Sunday night horror featured a couple trapped in the countryside as the sheep start to get restless. 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 branded a criminal. Directed by Costa Botes (Forgotten Silver), this was the only episode of 1980s anthology series About Face to take the Twilight Zone route. The Lamb of God was written by poet and lawyer Piers Davies, co-writer of 1978 movie Skin Deep and cult Australian film The Cars that Ate Paris. 

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 1995 documentary Godzone Sheep

Key Cast & Crew

Murray Milne

Cinematographer

Michael Keir-Morrissey

As: Les the butcher

Stephen Tozer

As: Allen

Piers Davies

Writer

Teresa Woodham

As: Deborah

Costa Botes

Director