Black Sheep (2006 film)
- Nathan Meister: Henry Oldfield
- Danielle Mason: Experience
- Peter Feeney: Angus Oldfield
- Tammy Davis: Tucker
- Glenis Levestam: Mrs. Mac
- Oliver Driver: Grant
- Tandi Wright: Dr. Astrid Rush
- Mick Rose: Mike
- Matthew Chamberlain: Oliver Oldfield
Black Sheep is a New Zealand horror comedy from director Jonathan King. The style is based on Peter Jackson's early productions like Bad Taste or Braindead.
The film was presented for the first time on 10 September 2006 at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada of an audience. The movie premiere took place on 29 March 2007 in New Zealand and on August 10 in Europe instead. His German premiere of the film had as part of Fantasy Film Festival, where he ran as the opening film of 2007. In the United States he had on 22 June premiere and appeared there on October 9 on DVD.
Action
Despite its morbid fear of sheep, the traumatized Henry Oldfield goes after 15 years of absence on the estate of his family to the New Zealand countryside to sell his share of the inheritance to his older brother Angus. This intends there to develop the " sheep of the future" with the help of genetic experiments. With the help of the controversial gene researcher Dr. Rush and her team finally manages to cultivate a new breed of sheep, the Angus wants to present to an investor meeting. Grant and Experience, two eco-activists who want to expose them, steal a glass sample container in which a mutated lamb is from the series of experiments. On the run crashes Grant, however, and the vessel is going to break, creating a bloodthirsty creature can escape that bites him and makes him become a sheep-like monster in a short time. Henceforth, he falls like the mutant sheep research bloodlust humans and animals, which in turn are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures.
Henry, Tucker ( the administrator of the farm) and the environmental activist Experience will soon be out of this " zombified " sheep attacked. However, the cold-blooded Angus, who is also a bite victims, initially refuses to believe in the existence of the killer sheep and rather sees his profitable business with potential investors at risk. His plan fails miserably, as his congregation gets attacked by a rampaging horde of sheep who brutally massacred the participants. Only now recognizes Angus, that changed his body, but now it is too late and he mutated into a creature half man, half sheep.
Meanwhile, the farm is besieged by an epidemic of beißwütigen sheep; Henry is also injured, his transformation is imminent, as Tucker suddenly shows up with an antidote and given him this. At the end of the film Angus is eaten by some of the sheep, which are then burned by Henry Tucker and Experience. The still remaining mutated humans ( including Grant) get the antidote injected and be saved. While the great misfortune seems to be averted, bleats at the end of the film, the family dog.
Reviews
" As befits a horror comedy of this type, the film increasingly absurd and at the same time is brutal; Henry and Experience mainly run frantically from one hiding place to the next, while around them squirt blood and guts, so high and wide it is at all. [ ... ] King also plays with the clichés of subgenres: Of course, Henry has a panic phobia of sheep, of course, his fear is confirmed, and of course he will have to overcome. As one knows from the beginning, the fun can really start, and you also have eyes that the film contains a subtle comment on the image of New Zealand in mainstream cinema as it is cultivated since Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. "