Cast/Notable Credits:
Jonathan King (Director)
Matthew Chamberlain (Oliver)
Oliver Driver (Grant)
Danielle Mason (Experience)
Peter Feeney (Angus Oldfield)
Trailer:
Plot:
Well…I’ve seen Jason in space hell I’ve even seen Leprechaun in space. I’ve
also seen killer condoms, killer shrews, and killer dolls. I thought it couldn’t get any crazier than that, until now. Killer sheep. Yep. Killer Sheep.Black Sheep is an independent film from New Zealand about...killer sheep. This is a fair warning, Black Sheep is a serious film that does not take itself seriously. Huh? It's a goofy dark comedy. Basically this is what the movie reminds me of:
28 Days Later (not 28 Days) + any werewolf tale + sheep = Black Sheep
The low down of this movie goes a little something like this...sheep herders experiment with human sperm and sheep to create the “ultimate sheep”. Somehow the toxic-waste-dead-sheep-carcasses left over from the experiments creates the “rage virus”.
When a liberal hippy environmentalist come across these leathal sheep, one
of them steals a canister of bio waste and gets bitten by a mutant fetal sheep carcass, he becomes SHEEP BEAST.Then an innocent sheep gets bitten by that same mutant fetal sheep carcass it becomes infected with the “rage virus” and spreads it along to other sheep turning them into zombie sheep. Zombie sheep bites human and human turns into SHEEP BEAST. Pretty fucked up, huh?
Villain:
Killer Sheep! What else do I need to say? Also killer werewolf-man Sheep Beast. Not really intimidating, but creative.
Cast:
Unknown cast signed on for this one. Only one hot chick…a spiritual hippy
environmentalist named “Experience”. I would like to “experience” her. But as I think about it, she probably doesn’t shave being a hippy. So underneath all the clothes might be a bulimic yeddy. Spoiled that thought now... didn't I?SFX/Gore:
There were a bunch of deaths, and mutations in the film. I lost track during the ceremony, and during the switching back and forth from human to sheep to human phases.
TNA:
Like a said one hot chick. Not much on the TNA front. It probably didn’t feel right in this movie the way it was written. I would like to mention that I watched this on the day of the CSU-Wyoming football game, so sheep jokes were just running through my mind. There’s a saying at my Ala mater:
“Wyoming: where the men are men, and the sheep are afraid!”
I bet this one's afraid. ================================>
On that note, there were two acts of sheep-man sex. Initiated on both sides. That’s just wrong to put in this category, but it was in the film.
T.Gun's Take:
Killer sheep…enough said. Well not exactly. I had high hopes for an over-the-top comedy, but was a little disappointed in the end result. The director seemed to stay with in the reality of things. He could have ventured down another off the wall path, but stayed true to reality to what he was making. At least the best reality could be portrayed in a zombie-killer-sheep movie.
I give the film huge props for being a low budget independent flick. Black Sheep is intended to be a funny dark humor horror film, and for the most part is that. Don't expect anything more or less. On a side note, Black Sheep was director Jonathan King’s first film.
Misc. Movie Trivia:
-Film opened on June 24, 2007 and made $83K at the Box Office in limited release
-SFX were done by Weta Workshops, the same company who did LOTR Trilogy
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