Cheesy Goodness
Added 9/17/2009
Well, if you like people with New Zeland accents, zombie sheep and fantastic gore effects then is movie is for you. If not, when then... you have no soul.
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shear genius
Added 8/30/2009
If you like the early Peter Jackson movies like 'Braindead' you'll like the dark humorous horror of 'Black Sheep'.
There's been movies about giant sharks, snakes, spiders, piranhas etc. going rampage on humans but this has to be the first such movie about sheep. This film takes place in New Zealand by the way.
Alot of people will predictably complain about the slightly amateurish filming, but it's not a b-movie by my standards, and I've seen quite a few.
To me this film brought back fantastic memories of films like Braindead, Badtaste, and Evil Dead II & III, and just like them this film is bizarre, over the top and full of twisted humor.
It pokes fun at the fanatic environmentalists irritating the world today, and it has an obvious criticism of genetic manipulation...which after all is the basis for the whole movie.
The film also makes fun of New Zealanders themselves, in Australia there are many jokes about New Zealanders and their relation to sheep, something New Zealanders understandably don't appreciate...it's similar to how the English make fun of the Welsh and their sheep.
So if you are a fan of Braindead try this one out, if you're not you'll probably not like it.
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Unknown Actors Star In One Of The Best Horror/Comedies Of 2006
Added 8/12/2009
Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Tammy Davis, Peter Feeney, Oliver Driver and Glenis Levestam star in this horror comedy from writer/director; Jonathan King. I thought the movie was going to be scary but I was a million miles off. In fact, it is one of my favorite movies of recent years. This movie was great along with POULTRYGEIST, HATCHET and SLITHER, also made in 2006. I give the movie a 5 out of 5 rating.
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Black Sheep, Black Humor!
Added 8/3/2009
What a treat! The faint of heart need not apply. It's The Island of Dr. Moreau in reverse. Brilliant, funny, great timing...It's a must see.
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Killer Sheep = Awesome. This Movie...Not So Much
Added 7/15/2009
I've been anxiously waiting to sink my teeth into this horror comedy since it arrived at my house a few weeks ago. The premise is pure genius! It's a movie about killer...sheep. Amazingly the filmmakers were able to contract special effects wizards, Weta Workshops (the lads who did work on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy) to create the "Were-Sheep" designs. Did I mention it was about killer sheep? The recipe for this film is practically flawless.
Too bad the final product didn't turn out as nearly as tasty as the recipe sounded. I wanted to love this film, I really did. For the first 25 minutes I was entertained. Yet once all the sheepish mayhem began I couldn't wait for it to end. The movie is simply boring. It has one simple gag...cuddly sheep turning evil and killing people is funny. Don't get me wrong it's hilarious when it first starts, but the movie is a one trick pony.
The paper thin plot consists of Henry (Nathan Meister) coming back to his family's sheep farm to sell his portion to his older brother Angus (Peter Feeney). However, Angus has been performing genetic experiments to create some form of super sheep without his brother's knowledge. Of course said experiments go horribly wrong and the results are the evil Were-sheep (unbeknownst to Angus). Toss in some hippie environmentalists, who inadvertently trigger the sheep invasion, simmer for an hour and wait for it to end. Seriously, this movie isn't meant to be scary so it needed to bring the funny. Unfortunately, after a few hilarious scenes in the first act, we are left with unfunny (not to mention mundane) gore effects. For all you gorehounds, I hope you like seeing sheep rip out intestines because it's an effect that gets reused ad nauseam. The final straw was that the human sized Were-Sheep were utterly silly looking. Oh, and apparently, once you turn into a Were-Sheep all you can do is punch people in the face with a vicious right hook (you'll see what I mean). I might have been able to forgive some of this if the grand finale was extraordinary, but the resolution was pretty awful.
Black Sheep desperately tries to recreate the same greatness as Peter Jackson's earlier work such as Bad Taste and Dead Alive. This movie is nowhere near that level of entertainment. If you find basic gore gags and sophomoric farting jokes to be funny then this movie might be for you. I'm not above low brow humor (that's an understatement) but this movie bored me to tears. A great premise does not make a good movie and Black Sheep is certainly proof of that.
Final Grade: D+
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