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.
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
absence, Henry discovers that his brother Angus has been performing genetic experiments on the sheep. Unfortunately for both the brothers and the rest of the humble farmers who make their living off of the land, these experiments have produced a strain of sheep that crave human flesh and will stop at nothing to satisfy their diabolical hunger. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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 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.
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.
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.
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
Dead, mostly because of it's acting and a couple of plot flaws. However, even though it's amatuerly made and lacks the substance of other horror comedies. What makes Black Sheep stand out is it's potential in doing what it wants to do. Which is, in this case, produce belly laughs and terrify with brutal and gruesome gory deaths at the hands of mutant sheep, forgetting about everything else and doing what it wants to do perfectly.
February 7, 2012
Michael Miller
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.
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