{"id":41030,"date":"2023-10-02T00:02:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T04:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=41030"},"modified":"2023-09-26T05:46:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:46:34","slug":"mary-had-a-little-lamb-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/02\/mary-had-a-little-lamb-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Had a Little Lamb (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MHALL-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MHALL-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a>It seems like every other year there\u2019s an attempt to deliver fans a new \u201cThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre,\u201d and like clockwork here comes \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb.\u201d Centered on Uncork\u2019d Entertainment\u2019s initiative to offer genre films based on classic nursery rhymes, director Jason Arber and writer Harry Boxley really don\u2019t do anything new or creative with the whole gimmick that his movie is centered on. It\u2019s, in a nutshell, a beat for beat, condensed remake of \u201cThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d but dropped down in to the UK.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A radio host and her crew set out to discover the truth behind some disappearances for a true crime show. They will soon learn that there is far more to discover when they meet Mary and her lamb. Who will make it out alive of this house of horrors?<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told there isn\u2019t even a whole lot done with the \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb\u201d gimmick, as the movie\u2019s title doesn\u2019t really dictate the entirety of the movie. Mary isn\u2019t even the central character when all is said and done. \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb\u201d feels like someone just had the nugget of an idea and tacked it on to Tobe Hooper\u2019s horror classic and just called it a day. To make it worse there isn\u2019t even a hint of self awareness or camp in the whole shebang as the movie is played primarily with a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>Hell even the concept of a slasher with an animal head was done before, and with more effective scares, I might add. There\u2019s a big difference between homage and straight up plagiarism and \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb\u201d walk that fine line often stumbling in to the latter. Arber\u2019s horror film runs out of steam after the first twenty minutes and literally feels like it\u2019s treading water, even for a movie barely clocking in at eighty minutes. Nothing about the movie feels up to par with its campy gimmick as the sound design is sub-par, the pacing is off, and the climax completely drops the ball.<\/p>\n<p>You assume even if the movie is a failure, that the writers would run with the central slasher, allowing the Lamb killer to take center stage, but the movie even fails in that respect. \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb\u201d has a ton of potential that is squanders on cribbing from \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d wholesale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Coming to Digital and DVD on October 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like every other year there\u2019s an attempt to deliver fans a new \u201cThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre,\u201d and like clockwork here comes \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb.\u201d Centered on Uncork\u2019d Entertainment\u2019s initiative to offer genre films based on classic nursery rhymes, director Jason Arber and writer Harry Boxley really don\u2019t do anything new or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[367,477,950,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-41030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-slasher","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41032,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030\/revisions\/41032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}