“You are what THEY eat!”  

Black Sheep (written and directed by Jonathan King) is set on a huge sheep farm in New Zealand where two brothers Angus and Henry live and work with their father.  The older brother Angus has a leg brace and is quite jealous of his younger brother receiving more attention from their father.  Angus kills Henry’s pet sheep and traumatizes him by wearing the sheep’s carcass.  The cruel prank is interupted by the housekeeper who tells the boys their father has died in an accident.  Years later, Angus (Peter Feeney) is running the farm, and Henry (Nathan Meister) has a crippling fear of sheep.  At his therapist’s suggestion  Henry travels to the farm to face his fears.  Meanwhile two environmentalists have snuck onto the farm to take photographs and collect evidence against the genetic research laboratory that resides there.  One of them goes a bit crazy and steals a biohazardous container with a deformed sheep fetus inside.  While running from the laboratory staff he trips and the container with the sheep fetus breaks open.  The contaminated fetus bites him and a nearby sheep, and that is how the contamination began.    

I knew I had to watch this film after seeing the trailer.  The tag line is actually  “Get ready for the Violence of the Lambs”.  How could I or anyone resist?  I’ve enjoyed watching Black Sheep (2007) several times now, and each time I watch it I pick up on a new aspect of the film that either makes it funnier or grosser.  Well acted and produced, Black  Sheep is the perfect mixture of farm, gore, and humor.  I think a farm is the perfect setting for a horror film.  It’s isolated and supposed to be peaceful, and to me sheep are a hilarious villain.  I’ve only seen sheep at a petting zoo, and they just seem so harmless and dimwitted that it adds an extra element of amusement to see them eat someone alive.  As if it weren’t bad enough to have body parts eaten by genetically altered sheep, the sheep infect and alter the genetics of those they bite.  Thats right, if you are bitten you mutate into a part human part pissed off sheep creature called a were-sheep.  Really, I cannot say enough good things about this film.    

“There’s something wrong with the sheep.”