Black Sheep (2006)

Director: Jonathan King

Writer: Jonathan King

Tagline: There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand... and they're pissed off!

Actors: Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney, Tammy Davis, Glenis Levestam, Tandi Wright, Oliver Driver, Matthew Chamberlain, Nick Fenton, Sam Clarke, Eli Kent, Nick Blake, Richard Chapman, Louis Sutherland, Ian Harcourt

Runtime: 1h. 27min.

Category: Aussie, Comedy, Creature, Zombie

Synopsis: A family owned farm in New Zealand has been doing genetic experiments on the local sheep. In order to create some kind of hybrid, Angus Oldfield, part owner of the land, has spliced sheep DNA with that of a human’s. The result…a race of flesh-eating, mutant sheep! Now, Henry, Angus’ younger brother, and an animal activist of all people, must fight for their lives to survive a sheep revolution!

Review: I heard about this movie about a month or so ago by one of my mangers at work. She told me about the trailer on YouTube and I had to check it out. She told me that it was about a race of zombie sheep terrorizing the New Zealand countryside. They were genetically altered, mutant, zombie sheep who crave human flesh. Even though many people are gonna argue about this movie, being zombie or not, I have to take the zombie side. Originally after seeing the movie I was convinced it was not a zombie movie, but after thinking about it, no one really knows how animals would react to zombification. Thus…zombie movie. And the movie kicked ass!

The story was really funny. I loved where they decided to go with the story and how to accelerate it. That damn hippie deserved everything he got. But overall it was a new look at the zombie genre; not once has a movie tapped into the idea of an animal generated, zombie mutation. Actually, this movie is so jumbled together it was almost hard to understand. But in a good way.

The acting was campy and amateur. But that’s exactly what I was expecting. Almost like Shaun of the Dead (2004), meets Army of Darkness (1992), meets sheep. But it played perfectly into the lackluster script; giving it a “are you serious?” feel.

The gore was, apart from the concept, my favorite part. I was not expecting such detail and such dedication. The guts and chunkies were very well done (apart from some being obviously too silly to be real), and the killing scenes were wicked awesome. Zombie sheep…who’d’ve thought? The most docile animal on the face of the damn planet and we turn it into a rampaging zombie! God I love this business!

Rating: 22. I loved this movie but I have to be fair; the acting was bad, and the concept, although good, was explained very little. Even though we did get a little glimpse, we got nothing to alleviate that sick feeling in our stomachs that ached for more. I was hoping that they would have explained how they got to the stage of flesh-craving sheep, but I guess that’s all I can do. Overall the movie was awesome and I would recommend it to anyone who loved Shaun of the Dead (2004), Army of Darkness (1992), or Undead (2003). (22of25).