Black Sheep (2007)

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Admirable film.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I must say, this is simply the greatest film ever made! Seriously, the plot is absurd, I can't really tell because of the accents, but the acting seems off at times, there's no special effects or ground breaking cgi or anything of that nature. But..., the astoundingly absurd premise of genetically altered sheep attacking and eating people, while turning some into "weresheep," is so incredibly stupid, it's awesome. There are so many WTF moments. There are many LOL moments. Watch when the people are attacked by a killer sheep in a moving truck. Then, watch the scene where a scientist is attack while disposing of remains. This movie should get the, "Best Movie Ever Made Anywhere," Oscar.

Disgusting, entertaining, lots of gore, cool mutant sheeps, and a deep message for modern society. I enjoyed "Black Sheep" because I took it for what it is: a fun movie that shouldn't be taken seriously. It offers violence, black humor and plenty of references to Horror movies (loved specially the "Night of the Living Dead" and "The Shining" tributes).It may not appeal for everyone but it surely ranks high on entertainment factors.Watch it and enjoy. It's mindless but gory fun.P.S. I love the blonde girl. She's dumb looking for that's my kind of girl.

When I discussed Eagle Vs Shark I tried my best not to pull pess out of the NZ accent - Oops I did it again! This time though the danger factor is ramped up, as Black Sheep concerns New Zealand citizens and their interactions with the noble sheep.I could be in trouble here.2 young boys grow up on a sheep farm, Henry and Angus. After a childhood sheep-related trauma (if only I had a dollar for all those I heard about) Henry moves away to the big city vowing never to return, Angus takes over running the farm once their parents pass away.Henry, now an adult, comes back to finalise the estate of his late Father and say goodbye to the farm once and for all. Of course this sets the tone for all that follows.It turns out that there is some shady scientific testing going on at the farm, and that the efforts to engineer the "perfect sheep" have resulted in some less than ideal variants being created and disposed of. Idiot-hippies (no other kind I can think of) come across such evidence and plan to use it for their protesting evidence. When the "evidence" turns out to be alive and escapes - but only after taking a nip out of one of the hippies - all sh*t breaks loose and things go baa-nanas!...Sorry.So what follows is a hell of a lot of violence against puppet sheep, and an equal amount of violence perpetrated by the suddenly savage ovine hordes against their former human tormentors. Henry, now joined by one of the hippie-idiots named Experience (told you) and the farm manager Taka seem stranded without transport and must hoof it...Sorry.There is some great gore and extremely inventive and effective makeup effects - the team behind a lot of the Lord of the Rings stuff were involved - it's all incredibly over the top and there are liberal lashings of bright blood all over the shop.All that and I didn't even mention the insinuation of human-ovine love. No wait I just did.Sorry. (But it's the truth!) Most of the jokes were lighthearted and dumb in an inoffensive way - the only joke that fell altogether flet, I mean flat for me was the use of Mint Sauce as a holy water substitute, aside from that fizzer Bleck Sheep was extremely amusing and well made. I can't go further without acknowledging the blatant rips from many other classic horror films such as Evil Dead, Tremors and An American Werewolf in London, but I'd rather watch a film that rips from the best instead of settling for mediocrity.Especially when it does so effectively and creates a minor classic like this.Final Rating - 7.5 / 10. Nothing too original, but funny and fun, and wayyy better than 100s of US or UK films made with a bigger budget but less inspiration annually.

Black Sheep knows that there is little-to-no point in creating rehashes of films such as Alien or The Thing here and now in the early years of the 21st Century; instead, it does something very creative and very appealing with the premise of bloodthirsty beasties roaming around a locale picking off its inhabitants, that is to say, takes it down a route of very funny and very effective comedy about killer sheep on a New Zealand located farm. One's mind darts back to an Irish film from 2003 entitled Isolation, ultimately a vanity project displaying the filmmakers' talents in creating atmosphere and inducing the odd scare; the purest in style over substance but something that no doubt benefited those whom worked on it, from the cinematographer right down to the tea-boys, in that it bulked out of each of their CV's. But that's all of what the film was: a CV-filler; a piece about a disfigured and very angry farmyard based cow-come-calf on the rampage, picking off the hapless inhabitants; all played for grimaces, all played seriously and all feeling very sub-The Thing; post-Alien. There can be little doubt Black Sheep helmer Jonathan King additionally grew up on such films; here, King grants the premise a refreshing upstart in several departments: from the often wondrous comedic element, dry in its overall tone, right the way down to the fact every one's tongue is of a Kiwi origin. In every sense of the term, it is the film Isolation should've been; and if it is compared to 2004's Shaun of the Dead, then it is because said film did precisely this with the zombie sub-genre. Such a comparison is merited. The film begins with an act of violence involving a human being and a sheep, the first and most certainly not the last as two young boys occupy their father's sheep farm. The youngest of these two, the Oldfield sons, is Henry (Fenton); a boy whom with his brother grows up but unlike him moves away although is returning to the farm here-and-now for the first time in many years to sell off a stake in what its worth. His issue with returning is that he has a deeply rooted phobia of sheep given certain events that happened to him on the farm when he was younger. Once there, he meets once again with his brother Angus (Feeney) whom it later transpires is involved in particular genetic experiments involving sheep; something that attracts the attention of two activists named Grant (Driver) and Experience (Mason) whom speak of previous animal rights missions they've undertaken which have gone horribly wrong as they themselves attempt to infiltrate the property.On another strand, Angus is looking to expand his experiments that have brought about the attention of many businessmen from all over the world, particularly the Japanese which usually means the technological advancements really are rather grandeur. He practises in front of rows of empty chairs where the forthcoming visitors are to sit, and while the composition of many-an empty chair carries with it a sense of foreboding, it is here we put two and two together regarding the premise before realising with a devilish laugh that sheep-fodder is up and on it's way.Angus' dabbling in "agricultural sciences" will eventually come to see all manner of nastiness break out, writer/director King pushing the boat out and experimenting with all sorts of black comedy and hellish laughs; symptomatically inserting all manner of humour, creativity, energy and pulse into a premise long since worn into the ground by films that are merely homage posing as something much more than a technical exercise. Here, the activists unwittingly release a lamb embryo loose amidst the grounds; King allowing the audience to teasingly hear the results of what happens when one of these fully grown things gets close to a human without actually showing us what happens.It isn't long before Angus and his team of cold, mechanical and somewhat uncanny looking team of barn-dwelling scientists each end up endangering the lives of everybody on the grounds; Experience and our lead Henry coming to form the core pairing as he attempts to deal with his morbid fear; she attempts to deal with the situation of volatile animals trying to harm her and both of them having to deal with each other as best-of-initial-enemies. King's film is good fun and impressively sticks to its guns in equal measure; delivering on generic demands but keeping everything reigned in. It isn't mean spirited in the mould of the stupefying, poorly made and grotesquely misjudged 2006 horror-comedy Severance, a film which flitted uncomfortably from content to content to cheap laughs to full on torture in an uncontrolled and immature manner, and nor does Black Sheep ever take the essence of its plot too seriously; in a world of unofficial sequels to remakes of films such as The Hills Have Eyes and ill-advised reinvigoration's of others such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Sheep is a welcome horror film tonic with its quick wit and eye for brooding situations.