The tagline reads: "There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand… and they're pissed off!"
On a remote sheep farm a genetic experiment goes horribly wrong. The result is a comic-horror in the same bloody vein as Peter Jackson's early work. Essentially a zombie movie with sheep.
12 ratings and 12 reviews
I saw Black Sheep at a media screening in January and it's really, really good.
A perfect mix between comedy and gore. Really funny.
I can't say much more except go and see it yourself. You'll enjoy it.
We want to like it, but if we're honest we know it's not very good. It's just not very funny, and not scary.
It was okay... short and occasionally funny.
The special effects were great. Very much reminded me of Braindead so if you liked that, you would probably like this too.
I liked this movie. I believe it's a truely kiwi movie with truely kiwi humour. I think the special effects (by Weta Workshop) are awesome! Some very clever and funny jokes and moments that make you think "did they mean....oh they did!". Great, I can recommend this movie.
i really did try to like it. The previews for it were great and i did find myself laughing a few times.....but that is about it.
I just found myself bored too often for a comedy......sorry
I thought this might be funny, in an 'ain't new zealanders quaint and haven't we all learned something from peter jackson's early gore films'. answer no.
This was rubbish. Dissapointing, I wanted to like it, but its a one trick pony. Crazy, zombie sheep chase people, people run away, people get trapped, people escape - repeat 3 or 4 times. Film ends.
ok cool iconography we see nz on film excellent sound track great cinematography. Plot clearly based on improvisational theatre workshop.You know oliver driver and his mates are heavily into impro...funny ???? No .Interesting??? yes
Did not stop me eating lamb I dont recomment showing this film on inboard tourist flights the tourists are spooked enuf by our dogs!
One of the few DVDs where I couldn't be bothered seeing it through to the end, or even halfway ... try half-an-hour.
Amateurish in production, direction and acting.
The joke is the local movie 'industry' clamouring for much-needed credibility (and funding) but stinging their patrons with trash like this one.
i saw the perveiws and they just shoeed the best parts to the movie a left out that it was a repeting flim like other flims they try to make funny but just arnt
I was stuck deciding between 3 and 4 stars!
Sorta funny, nice scenery, sometimes a bit over the top!
Not scary at all, the non-reality of it makes it more funny than scary.
The special effects were great!!! Go Weta Workshop.
Acting was goodish, sometimes i think the actors displayed the wrong emotion.
Would recommend, especially to a member of another country.
This movie was only moments away from greatness or at least mediocrity. But we didn't even get that because three factors - comedic timing, the editing and the music - all consistently missed the mark.
Why do the greenie/hippie/new age characters get all the good jokes?!
Pretty impressive work from a first-time filmmaker who aimed for equal portions of broad humor and gore galore -- and nailed both genres right on the mutton. Full review.
Surely it's a sign of national maturity to have us telling sheep jokes against ourselves and selling them to the world. Black Sheep won't be to everyone's bad taste. But it's got plenty of it to keep us chuckling until that next Sunday roast... Full review.
Black Sheep is slick schlock that might entertain if you haven't seen a horror film since the 80s. It feels like the overly manufactured product of giving a hack a million dollars, a Cinemascope lens, an army of Weta workshop drones, a producer with a keen sense of generating international box office mojo via New Zealand's currently bankable genre filmmaking, and churning out something that looks vaguely like a cult item worthy of festival market interest. It's certainly no Death Warmed Up or Bad Taste -file it somewhere next to the blandness of The Locals... Full review.
1/2 So full of animal-flatulence jokes that you can almost smell it, Black Sheep has never found a farming joke it didn't find incredibly amusing. Sheep shagging farmers? The plot practically hinges on it... Full review.
looks like a good movie
Everyone says its cheesy,... but i can't get enough!!!
This is the coolest movie ever I wish so much they would make a sequel!!!!