About Face - The Lamb of God

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

Look at them all. Standing there waiting to be turned into chops. No wonder they say sheep are stupid.

– Allen (Stephen Tozer)

it was not difficult to suspend disbelief because it was so well done . . . chilling enough to need to create in the light relief in the living room and insufficiently tongue in cheek to drown out the silent screams of all those slaughtered animals down the years producing a constant echo in our ears.

– Reviewer Libby Young in The Auckland Star, 18 August 1986

Even though the sheep refused to slaver at the mouth, Lamb of God succeeded with its conceit of sheep on the revolutionary rampage by concentrating on the human terror. A curious glance from a sheep was enough for a butcher to repent.

– An unknown NZ Herald reviewer, 23 August 1986

He's a murderer.

– Deborah (Teresa Woodham) describes Les (Michael Keir-Morrissey)