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08/17/07
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Black Sheep (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 86
Fresh: 61
Rotten:25
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Consensus: With an outrageous premise played completely straight, Black Sheep is a violent, grotesque, and very funny movie that takes B-movie lunacy to a delirious extreme.
Theatrical Release: Jun 22, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: This blood-soaked horror comedy is the story of Henry Oldfield (Nathan Meister), a New Zealander with an unfortunate phobia...of sheep. When Henry was a boy, his father was killed in a herding accident on the land, and Henry fled to the big... [More]
Starring: Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney, Tammy Davis
Director: Jonathan King
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Reviews for Black Sheep
Top Critic
Amid the blood, gore, shrieks and ovine freaks, there's plenty of novelty value in this original flock-horror fest, albeit little else.
08/11/07
Top Critic Lush photography of the beautiful New Zealand hills combines with skin ripping mayhem and over-the-top humor to make one of the funniest of the new wave zombie satires yet.
04/06/08
Black Sheep isn't perfect, but director Jonathan King certainly shows a lot of promise.
12/10/07
It's a lively affair, extremely violent, full of black humour and what might be called shear terror.
10/20/07
Pera ap' to concept toy, kai dyotreis eksarseis stin ekseliksi toy, par' oti fainetai polla yposhomeno to Black Sheep den ehei na dosei kai polla oyte sti splateria oyte stin komodia poy prepei na pantrepsei
10/14/07
The farce maintains a rollicking pace and the performances are more accomplished and likeable than a film of this sort generally musters.
10/12/07
Top Critic The jokes don't quite stay the course, but writer-director Jonathan King generates far too much goodwill for you to mind.
10/12/07
Once the novelty wears off, we’re left with a poorly-made black comedy with plenty of gore but little suspense and even fewer laughs.
10/12/07
Top Critic Shaun of the Dead has set the bar pretty high for this sort of thing; Black Sheep just isn't nearly as funny or suspenseful.
10/12/07
Top Critic If you're in the mood for black comedy - especially if you enjoyed Shaun Of The Dead - this is shear (pun intended) enjoyment.
10/12/07
There are plenty of decent laughs, but the shadow of the far superior British zombie romcom looms large.
10/12/07
Top Critic This impeccably filmed comedy horror film echoes An American Werewolf in London and early Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, but it has its own unique energy, and it's a must-see.
10/11/07
Enjoyable, frequently hilarious horror comedy, although it's stronger on laughs and gloopy gore effects than it is on actual scares.
10/11/07
While it's rarely fall-down hilarious, it's witty enough to please horror fans in search of a light-hearted tribute to splatter flicks of old.
10/10/07
Dopey editing, ropey pacing, hokey story structure, scrappy sound, rubbish rubbery gore and acting that would shame a toddlers’ nativity play.
10/10/07
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but there's plenty of chuckles and chills along the way as Henry, Tucket and Experience face the threat of a couple of hundred sheep bright-eyed with bloodlust.
10/10/07
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