Black Sheep

Off - Bleat Gem, 14 October 2007

Author: gary-444 from United Kingdom


How much you enjoy this film lies wholly in your approach to it. Those expecting a sophisticated, glossy gore - fest will come away feeling "fleeced". However those prepared to sample a quirky, low budget, unassuming story with its tongue firmly in its cheek will not be disappointed.

Director and writer Jonathon King combines some very effective "American Werewolf in London" style special effects with a "light" script not ashamed to make plenty of bad sheep jokes. A cast of unknown, yet affectionate stereotypes,is held together by the most rounded character, Eco Warrior, Experience, well played by Danielle Mason, around which all this mayhem is played.

The business end of the film , the "killer sheep" is convincingly portrayed with a realism which surely pushes its British "15" Rating to the limit. But at just under the magic hour and a half length, the story does not outstay its' welcome and shows a discipline, structure, and coherence, which belies its zany left field premise.

Strong on laughs and explicit gore, the "feel" of the film is more "Shaun of the Dead" than "Evil Dead" and harks back to those 1940's and 50's black and white films about mad professors and mutant monsters to which this frequently pays homage.Just enjoy - don't judge