A genetic mutation sees a flock of New Zealand sheep develop a taste for humans in this hilarious splatterfest.
New Zealand have done it again. The sheer amount of humour that plastic sheep can generate is astounding. This is just like Brain dead by Peter Jackson but with sheep zombies rather than human zombies. Fanstasically funny, it doesn't try to be at all realistic and give a great blend of black comedy and visual comedy horror. This is a film for all comedy and horror lovers with enjoy.
Never before have I been so disgusted, sickened, and repulsed by a film...this coming from a lover of all things horror!
Black Sheep is the new flick from first time director Jonathan King, and he has done an excellent job, in making one creepy, distasteful, inexperienced and cheap looking film.
From the start with visions of a young lad wearing the bloody sheep carcass to terrify his younger brother you can tell things are not going to be as pleasant as you thought. This experience frightens the young boy, and causes a phobia of sheep he is still living with 15 years later when he returns to the family farm. It is here where small, fluffy and dirty white sheep become violent and aggressive when they are bitten and infected by a genetically modified lamb, one of the farmer"s projects. The story line is ridiculous. From one mutant sheep biting another and another to an entire herd of giant killer cotton wool balls hunting humans to snack on, or bite and turn into half sheep themselves.
This must be one of the most disturbing films this year has had to offer. Visions of blood all over the kitchen, a man eating his own flesh when transforming into a sheep to a pit full of discarded organs and leftovers, which is horrendous. The full face violence of sheep being shot in the face, ripping the flesh from bones, women having intestines ripped out and others having limbs bitten off is some of the most unsettling I have ever encountered - and that"s after watching franchises like Halloween, Nightmare, Friday 13th and Chucky.
The images of an individual"s transformation from human to weresheep look as if they have been adapted straight from American werewolf in London. The costume is effortless, obviously cheap in its making and looks like a deformed camel, not a sheep. I"ve seen scarier costume on the werewolf in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
This film has been classified as horror comedy. Well it is actually neither. Attempts at humour like sheep driving a car off a cliff may well have been funny in animation, but when accompanied by mindless pro-activists and imagery that turns your stomach and makes you feel physically sick, the humour is wasted. Even the ending which has worked as humour in real life many times before is unsatisfying due in part to the previous scenes you would have experienced. The attempt at suspense and anticipation through sharp music at one point is wasted and not effective in the slightest.
Forget Silence of the Lambs and think Violence from the lambs. This film will have you feeling physically and emotionally sick while watching, and afterwards turn you against the idea of letting your children going to the petting zoo. Never again am I going to look at those animals the same. As for eating lamb, I never really ate it before seeing Black Sheep, and defiantly not going to be eating it after.
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Blood-soaked horror comedy about a New Zealander, Henry Oldfield (Nathan Meister), with an unfortunate phobia of sheep. When Henry returns to his family's farm he is unaware that something baaaad is going on - his brother Angus' (Peter Feeney) reckless genetic engineering programme. When a pair of inept environmental activists release a mutant lamb from Angus' laboratory onto the farm, thousands of sheep are turned into blood-thirsty predators. Along with farmhand Tucker (Tammy Davis) and greenie girl Experience (Danielle Mason), Henry finds himself stranded on the farm as his worst nightmare comes to life.
Black Sheep [2007] [DVD] [DVD] (2007) Tammy Davis; Kevin McTurk; Tandi Wright
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