Customer Reviews
If you like Dead Alive you will LOVE Black Sheep... 
2008-06-13
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!
One of the best comedy/horror movies I have seen. It has now been bumped up to one of my top 10.
Yes, its that amazing... Zombie sheep. Can it seriously get any better? Thats what I thought.
Bleedin' Offal... 
2008-06-12
Genetically modified sheep, mixed with human dna? Isn't this already happening in the real world?
'Black Sheep' then, should be ahead before it starts. These God-annoying creatures are already stalking the British countryside, so Heaven knows what's lurking on the shrouded plains of Russia, China and elsewhere......
So, mad scientists hiding away in the green expanses of New Zealand is a solid premise,(horror and comedy being the only genres that need to have some basis in reality, as they're the two which demand the greatest suspension of disbelief) and you'd think we'd be well on our way to a kicking eco-thriller, with splashing gore and in-your-fat-face gags, but beneath the surface, a serious treatise on how we put upon our world, and...what we put in ourselves. (a nightmare of horror in itself!)
Unfortunately, 'Black Sheep' is so wayward and clumsy, it negates all these factors. The gore is no-where near splashy enough('if in doubt - more gore!!') and the jokes, with a couple exceptions, are too low-brow, coarse, and rarely find their targets.
The acting is strange. Neither tongue-in-cheek subtle, or wild and unrestrained, just sort of staid in the centre. You don't really want to cheer for ANY of the characters. The hero is a bit of a big-girls-blouse, who has a phobia,(guess what of...go on, I bet you can't.) and the heroine is a totally predictable, stereotypical, vegetarian eco-warrior.(cue naff 'mutton oysters' gag) Can he overcome his inner terror and rescue the helpless/hapless/hopeless female from death and worse? Ho hum.
Villainy is represented by big-business sheep farmers (a real painful death industry) and evil, immoral scientists, neither of which are OTT or sadistic enough to really gird a viewers loins, and get them all boo and hiss. Again lacklustre,(and this is inexcusable - not having at least one hellfire lamb-strangler in amongst the vermin creationists is bad on any level) and I'm afraid as a society, we just don't hate farmers enough.
'Razorback' is `Black Sheep's angular ancestor, and it's a superior film in every way. Funnier, nastier,(ie funnier) better acted, better locations, even the beast itself (which was just a big cardboard head, pushed around by the crew.) is far more fearsome than any number of these prosthetic 'black sheep'.
It's a major failing - they're just not scary. They've got the numbers, but not the inclination. They're stupid. They die far too easily. They can't bite through a welly. That they purport to pose ANY threat is silly, even in the totally ridiculous horror-comedy sub-genre.
We'd instinctively know how to deal with rebel ruminants in Wales boyo's. Pitchfork in hand, and blood-curdling cries of "mint sauce!" and "doner kebab!" we'd charge 'Zulu' style down the valley to drive 'em from our lands and into the paths of 20-ton articulateds. Really easy. They're not 'The Birds' after all.
That the jokes run dry, and the film descends into grue isn't really giving too much of the plot away, and there is a cool "animal husbandry" joke which I won't explain here. (The 'report abuse' feature would be activated in seconds, and, in the context of the gag, would be wholly appropriate - think about it)
The film I want to see is a bull-fighting horror-comedy,('Toreogore'?) where the matadors and picadors are tortured and slaughtered, and the baying crowds are drugged and castrated and chased down dead-end streets. The bulls then get the girl;(Sandra Bullock or Sally Field) and thunder off into the sunset. Directed by Almodovar. No eco-message, just bloodthirsty revenge. Hilarious. Any-one from Warner's or Miramax reading this....? Get in touch, we'll do lunch. (!)
Anyway, 'Black Sheep' gets a star for the cute sheepdog, and another for it's relentless skitting of awful trendy phrases like 'chakra' and 'feng-shui'. Being Mr.Freedom-Of-Speech and a fully paid up member of the 'Screw PC Society', I took some perverse enjoyment from that.
Otherwise it's all a bit pointlessly obvious. The maker's would have you believe it's the next 'Shaun of the Dead',(itself over-rated) but they can't pull the wool over my eyes.....(!)
Hysterically funny! 2008-06-09
This is easily one of the funniest horror movies I've ever seen. Do not miss it! It has enough gore to satisfy those that like that sort of thing. It has tension, great special effects, and layer upon layer of jokes, innuendo and outright lunacy. I cannot recommend this movie highly enough.
OMG! 2008-05-27
This is the Funniest horror film i have ever seen. Not scary just plain silly and funny. The idea of were-sheep was inginious and stupid and the same time. a true horror anomoly.
HOOOOOWWWLLL WERE-SHEEP OF NEW ZEALAND! 3 1/2 STARS 
2008-05-24
OK, I just couldn't resist seeing this strange looking film! I watched this film with my wife and we both found it very entertaining. The funny thing is....it could have been played completely straight and worked! Sheep are freaky looking critters and I found myself a little creep-ed out, looking at them up close! This is a very dark comedy/horror film all the way and they pull it off. With a 85 minute running length the film ends before the jokes get old. Very good FX and some gratuitous gore for my gore-hound buddies keep this film from becoming too silly. The film does have some very good scares too, so If your looking for something different maybe 'Black Sheep' is just your Baaaaagggg! ;-b
Baaaa Baaa Black Sheep..... 
2008-07-17
"Black Sheep" never came to my local art house and I can somewhat see why. It's a combination of horror and Brit dark comedy that's appealing to a truly demented flock.
It's a tale of three brothers who lose their father to an untimely accident. Throw in a bit of genetic engineering gone badly wrong and a pair of thieves. Oh, and an animal rights protester as well. And I'm not even going into Woolies gone Were.
If you like comic horror, I suspect you are going to LOVE this movie. WARNING: You will never be about to 'count sheep' on a sleepless night again.
Rebecca Kyle, July 2008
Flipping Hysterical 2008-07-14
Beautiful New Zealand scenery and a herd of mutant blood-thirsty sheep. There isn't really more that needs to be said.
Not as bad as I thought.... 2008-06-26
If you go into the movie knowing that it's supposed to be funny and ridiculous, it's actually pretty enjoyable. I think all the negative reviews are from people that tried to watch it as a horror movie, which it clearly isn't!
The most ridiculous animal attack film I've seen so far. 2008-06-24
I'll make this short, Black Sheep was a film about killer sheep so it's not meant to be taken too seriously and it was a decent horror/comedy film that I thought was not to bad however there were a few scenes that I didn't find interesting and some of the humor didn't work. This film comes from New Zealand and was inspired by Dead Alive and some of the characters were pretty dumb but I guess it was part of the charm that this film has.
It does have some great special fx like that huge weresheep and some of the gore was fantastic and very bloody, watching some of the sheep attacking and eating humans and turning the tables was interesting and funny and watching them hunt in packs looked great but it soon loses a bit of steam especially towards the end.
The fx were done by WETA who were the same people who did Dead Alive but I felt like the film was a bit uneven. Overall I would have to say that this film was worth watching but don't expect it to be a masterpiece. Black Sheep was released by Dimension Extreme who have been releasing some good titles lately and this flick was decent at least turned out to be better than the that awful Diary of The Dead.
God Awful!!!! 
2008-06-17
This is one of those movies that causes you physical pain to sit through! But, you have to force yourself to sit through it because, darnit, you spent all that money on it! It was cheesey, stupid, lame, boring, and just plain ridiculous! I love horror movies, but I hated this.
