There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand AND THEY'RE PISSED OFF!
I watched Black Sheep last night and it's not your normal zombie flick… they're infected zombie sheep~!
This isn't science, the sheep are revolting…
aren't they.
The main character is named Henry and he apparently left the farm soon after the death of his father, but, returns shortly after the start of the film under advice from his therapist. Henry has a phobia that he will die by being mauled by sheep. His brother, Angus, has been experimenting with genetic engineering of the sheep. A pair of environmental wingnuts, including a cute chick named Experience, trespass onto the farm and steal a fetus marked for disposal. The male wingnut, Grant, runs off from the guards and breaks the jar the fetus was stored in, but the fetus isn't dead… it's undead~! Grant is mauled by zombie lamb. There is a bit of cool gore here with terrific skin pulling and a little blood. This gives Grant, who was a vegetarian a taste for raw bunny rabbit. Zombie lamb makes its way back to the flock and bites a sheep on the nose. This sets off the infected zombie sheep apocalypse…. There's a few homages to classic zombie flicks of old including a bit where the main characters are trapped in the farm house. When the zombie sheep bite a human that human begins to take on characteristics of the infected sheep and even start taking on physical changes eventually becoming a seven foot tall anthropomorphic sheep creature themselves. Luckily Weta, the Lords of the Ring people, did the creature and effects so things look cool and not too campy. When the zombie flock attacks at an investor's gathering we're treated to some awesome gore with people losing limbs, lips, and all manner of dismemberment. There's a cool transformation scence that evokes, An American Werewolf in London. Of course there is some 'sheep love' jokes which some might find off color, but, it's done in as tasteful a manner the subject could be shown in. By no means is this a great flick, but it is a fun flick. On scale of one to five, where five is the highest, I'd give it a three and three-quarters and say it's well worth your 90 minutes. It's currently in rotation on the Cinemax stations.
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