Pissed off sheep!

Black Sheep

Black Sheep is a frightening and funny horror film written and directed by Jonathan King. It takes the iconic elements of the New Zealand farming landscape and culture and puts them through the horror wringer.

Plot

Dotting the scenic pastures green of New Zealand’s farmlands is an overwhelming population of forty million sheep. Black Sheep brings to life New Zealanders’ worst nightmare - the possibility of these herds running amok.

Henry Oldfield (Nathan Meister), the ovinophobic (!) younger sibling of a farming family returns home to sell out to his older brother Angus (Peter Feeney), who’s secretly running a reckless genetic engineering operation on the farm. Attempting to expose Angus’s perverted practice of animal husbandry, two bumbling environmental activists accidentally release a mutant lamb into the populace, infecting the herd and turning them into mutton on a mission - crazed and out for human blood.

Together with farmhand Tucker (Tammy Davis) and pretty peacenik activist Experience (Danielle Mason), Henry finds himself trapped in a phobic frenzy that until now only existed on his therapist’s couch. As a group of international investors arrives for the unveiling of Angus’s supersheep, the rampaging, predatory flock begins to descend from the hills. Mankind faces a danger far beyond a stampeding mob of bleating, woolly carnivores, as one bite from an infected sheep causes a horrific mutation into a… weresheep!