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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★ 1

  The outrageous premise alone sold me on this horror comedy but I have to admit I was a tad bit concerned about whether or not they'd be able to pull it off without a hitch! Any worries that I may have had were put to rest not too long into the film!

  I swear I have never laughed so hard in my life! I'm happy to report to all you killer sheep fans out there.. These sheep are Baah'd to the Bone! There's excessive amounts of arterial blood spray and gore to galore!

  Final Word: What's a female sheep called.. it's also a word one might use when graphic gore comes onscreen?

  Answer: EWE

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  Review by shookone ★★★

  you watch this for the crazed, genetically modified zombie sheeps, or - to put it more technocratically - for the formidable creature effects. sure, the black humor sometimes drifts into clownish foolery but when the happily deformed jumbucks attack greedy capitalists you're getting reimbursed for too much undirected simplicity along the way. / fantasy film fest opener 2007

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  Review by Slig001 ★★★½

  Black Sheep takes obvious influence from a range of standard monster/zombie movies but achieves some originality thanks to the setting and the fact that the central monsters are sheep. The film fuses comedy and horror well, although it has to be said that some of the jokes don't really land. The horror, on the other hand, is really well done. All the sheep effects are really great and the film doesn't skimp on the gore and more gruesome elements either. The plotting is fairly standard but the comedic tone allows the film to go to the far end of ridiculous without any major problems. The characters are fairly standard fare, except for the character of "Experience", who is a decade ahead of her time! The film rattles along at a good pace and entertains throughout. It's hardly groundbreaking or essential viewing but there are worse ways to spend eighty five minutes of your life.

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  Review by Björn Broekman ★★★½ 4

  Cheaters! Calling a film Black sheep and not having any black sheep in it at all. . .also, this was very much like how Alfred Hitchcock's The Sheep + David Cronenberg's The sheep would have turned out + laughing my ass off because seeing sheep running within the context of this film was just too freakin funny for words.

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  Review by Robert Berlin ★★★ 9

  Spooky Scary Horrorthons 6 - Film #22

  A guy from New Zealand returns to his childhood home where he once suffered a traumatic experience with sheep. Once he returns he finds out that his already weird brother is now a business suit who hopes to make shepherding great again with genetically engineered ultra sheep. What follows is a lot of sheep-mayhem across gorgeous landscapes!

  I would have wanted far more of the ridiculous gore à la Braindead and a whole lot less of the farming industry conspiracy that quite frankly bored me a lot. But regardless, the semi-frequent bursts of gruesome gore and ridiculous weresheep sequences didn't disappoint. The film also thrives on the New Zealand accents. Literally anything sounds hilarious when spoken by someone from New Zealand.

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  Review by Trevor Henderson ★★★½ 3

  A lot of the comedy doesn't land for me here (more often true than not with horror comedies, I find) but the gore and creature effects are unreal and are more than worth checking this out. I think the funniest thing this movie could have done was play the idea of flesh-eating sheep in a dead serious way.

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  Review by Tarryn-tino ★★★

  "What about the sheep?...Fuck the sheep!...No time for that bro. Go go go!"

  Black Sheep was, surprisingly, a lot funnier and more entertaining that I thought it was going to be. I've known about this film for a long while, but never watched it because it sounded so ridiculous, plus I have this weird fear of animals non animal things, it freaks me out, A LOT!

  But thankfully, there was enough humour and enough, old school 'horror' ie. the gory violence, that was very reminiscent of Evil Dead/Sam Raimi style, that it made the sheep freak me out less.

  Good for a few laughs, not scary, but still enjoyable, if not taken seriously :-)

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  Review by Hollie ★★½ 4

  I just googled "what do sheep say" to confirm it's "baa," don't ever take me seriously I'm a fucking idiot. Black Sheep, the consensus is the goopy gore & prosthetics & weresheep transformations were great but the weak attempt to make this a horror comedy was baad and to me, the fucking idiot, that seems like the right take.

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  Review by DBC ★★½ 3

  Around the World Challenge 2019
  Week 9: New Zealand
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  Now I've known I can enjoy an entertaining yarn about killer sheep since at least series two of Monty Python's Flying Circus, so I should've been a push over for this one. But despite the occasionally playful cinematography and sometimes bonkers bits of zombie sheep gore practical effects, Black Sheep seriously misses the mark it was aiming for on so many other levels, a few of them to an awful degree.

  Surprisingly, the worst offender here wasn't animal cruelty. Oh it's here, but it's so over-the-top and obviously fake that I couldn't really be bothered by it. The audio mixing, on the other hand… not only was the mixing frequently…

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  Review by Helen_S ★★★★

  This comedy horror from New Zealand was so much better, funnier and gorier than I remembered. Highly influenced by Shaun of the Dead but with enough of its own thing going on. The effects were super gross at times and the werewolf like transformation towards the end was fan-bloody-tastic!

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  Review by Digital Press ★★★★

  So which one was Chris Farley and which one was David Spade?

  
  
  

  … also, this was a lot of fun. For horror fans with a strong stomach and a good sense of humor!

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  Review by Sam Kohn ★★½

  Violence of the Lambs.