Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 88
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 27
With an outrageous premise played completely straight, Black Sheep is a violent, grotesque, and very funny movie that takes B-movie lunacy to a delirious extreme.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 6
With an outrageous premise played completely straight, Black Sheep is a violent, grotesque, and very funny movie that takes B-movie lunacy to a delirious extreme.
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A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines in this rural horror comedy directed by Jonathan King and featuring special effects designed by Weta Workshop. When the death of his father and a stress-induced fear of sheep pushes him toward the edge of a nervous breakdown, skilled farmer Henry Oldfield leaves the family farm behind in a desperate bid to achieve inner peace. Upon returning to the farm following a 15-year
Sep 10, 2006 Wide
Oct 9, 2007
IFC Films
All Critics (91) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (65) | Rotten (27) | DVD (17)
This lurid lunacy from New Zealand is a horror-humor cross-breed of animal lore and giddy gore.
Anyone lacking a taste for red meat will likely say bah to the one-joke juiciness of Black Sheep, but ovine enthusiasts will be licking their chops.
Stunning vistas of New Zealand's rolling countryside aren't enough to carry this lame 2006 horror spoof about a lab experiment gone awry.
The most gruesomely satisfying spectacle for hard-core environmentalists would be that of a group of foreign investors in the evil enterprise being gobbled up by a flock of rampaging sheep.
...Black Sheep never rises above sensation and splatter, or goes beyond the one thing it does best: It bites.
Black Sheep is never very frightening, but it's clever and fun, with a memorable amount of humor and gore. Imagine if the Monty Python folks made the killer rabbit part from Holy Grail into a full-length movie.
Brisk, rambunctious splatter-comedy
Lush photography of the beautiful New Zealand hills combines with skin ripping mayhem and over-the-top humor to make one of the funniest of the new wave zombie satires yet.
It's a lively affair, extremely violent, full of black humour and what might be called shear terror.
Pera ap' to concept toy, kai dyotreis eksarseis stin ekseliksi toy, par' oti fainetai polla yposhomeno to Black Sheep den ehei na dosei kai polla oyte sti splateria oyte stin komodia poy prepei na pantrepsei
If there were a whole list of movies about killer mutated sheep and the horrific things they do to people, this would undoubtedly be the very best of the bunch.
A raucously hysterical romp by some seriously twisted filmmakers.
The farce maintains a rollicking pace and the performances are more accomplished and likeable than a film of this sort generally musters.
Good, camp fun.
Flock to this if ewe want a bloody laugh.
The jokes don't quite stay the course, but writer-director Jonathan King generates far too much goodwill for you to mind.
Once the novelty wears off, we're left with a poorly-made black comedy with plenty of gore but little suspense and even fewer laughs.
Shaun of the Dead has set the bar pretty high for this sort of thing; Black Sheep just isn't nearly as funny or suspenseful.
If you're in the mood for black comedy - especially if you enjoyed Shaun Of The Dead - this is shear (pun intended) enjoyment.
There are plenty of decent laughs, but the shadow of the far superior British zombie romcom looms large.
This impeccably filmed comedy horror film echoes An American Werewolf in London and early Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, but it has its own unique energy, and it's a must-see.
If your an open minded person, Black Sheep is both clever and ludicrous in equal measure. I had low expectations and I was more than surprised when I discovered this was actually pretty lamb good. It's not sophisticated or as decently constructed as fellow horror movies with the surrealist humour like Shaun of the
February 7, 2012
Super Reviewer
For a low budget, this movie was good. Not brilliant but not bad either. But I must say that the mutation was quite unnecessary.
March 4, 2010
Super Reviewer
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