Fresh
The performances may be uneven, but the flawed characters are believable, the sheep surprisingly scary and the animal antics often laugh-out-loud funny.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Black Sheep
There are over 40 million sheep in New Zealand, and they're pissed off!
2006 · 1h 26m · Not Rated
Comedy, Horror
Directed by
Jonathan King
Overview
After a childhood prank by his brother Angus causes Henry to develop a phobia of sheep, he must step up to the onslaught of a genetically-mutated man-eating flock with the help of his friend and a young environmentalist.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
72%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This lurid lunacy from New Zealand is a horror-humor cross-breed of animal lore and giddy gore.
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
Anyone lacking a taste for red meat will likely say bah to the one-joke juiciness of Black Sheep, but ovine enthusiasts will be licking their chops.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Rotten
Stunning vistas of New Zealand's rolling countryside aren't enough to carry this lame 2006 horror spoof about a lab experiment gone awry.
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The most gruesomely satisfying spectacle for hard-core environmentalists would be that of a group of foreign investors in the evil enterprise being gobbled up by a flock of rampaging sheep.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
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