Black Sheep
We went to see Kiwi splatter flick Black Sheep yesterday. We didn’t expect much after reading some bad reviews, but it was worth it. It had some very funny moments and the gory splatter effects were good - we especially liked the crunching, breaking, tearing, ripping and splattering sound effects.
The plot, if you can call it that, is ridiculous, but that doesn’t matter one bit of course. It boils down to “radioactive mutant zombie sheep tear everyone apart and a group of unlikely heroes save the day”.
Unfortunately, it was just an “ok” movie. Since it’s a kiwi splatter movie, everyone compares it to Peter Jackson’s early work, the extremely humorous low budget splatter classics Bad Taste and Braindead. We recognized elements of Braindead and the hilarious Troma production Class of Nuke’em High. We’re not sure if Jonathan King is a big Troma fan, but several characters in Black Sheep seemed to have walked right out of Nuke’em High.
While Black Sheep’s effects and photography are much better, it’s just not as funny and original as Braindead or Class of Nuke’em High. Anyway, if you like over-the-top zombie attacks with blood and guts flying all over the place, you’ll like Black Sheep and you should probably go see it, even if there are better films in the genre.
