#206: Black Sheep, Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir

Genre: Horror/Horreur

Annee/Year: 2006

Format: DVD

Black Sheep. First time i saw the trailer i was absolutely sure this was a joke, a spoof trailer. Second time i realized that someone out there was probably crazy enough to pull this through as a reel movie. Well that is exactly what Kiwi director Jonathan King pulled off. Waht do you expect from a new Zealand movie other than evil sheep bent on invading the world.

Take a NZ sheep farm add the ingredients of two brothers: one evil and the other a sensitive boy. Put them against each other in controling the fram's legacy and you have proper grounds for sheep genetic engineering making them vicious carnivores... add in some green activist to lit up the fire and some human/sheep hybridization and you have the funniest movie you can think off.

With very average actors and a script obviously pulled by the hair you have a good recipe for black humor at it's best. Not for everyone but if you are an amateur of dark humored movie a la "Shawn of the dead" this is for you.

Black sheep. La première fois que j'ai vu la bande-annonce de ce film, j'étais convaincu que c'était une farce. La seconde fois j'ai compris qu'il y avait vraiment un Kiwi assez fou pour réaliser ce film.

Une comédie du réalisateur Neo Zelandais Jonathan King (aussi apporte Under the mountain) qui est une folle comédie noire. Si vous prenez une ferme de Nouvelle-Zélande et y ajouté deux frères un instable aux tendances dangereuses et un second trop sensible. Mettez-les tous deux en conflit sur l'avenir de la ferme familiale. Ajouter un gros paquet de mutation génétique des moutons pour les rendres carnivores et agressifs. Allumer le tout avec une étincelle fournit par des activistes Greenpeace pas trop futés. Le résultat donne des hybrides humains/moutons et de l'action et des rires à souhait.

Acteurs moyens réalisation moyenne et effets spéciaux borderline cet excellent humour noir vous plaira si vous aimez le genre (tel Shawn of the dead).

Great quotes:

[Henry panics while under attack from a sheep]
Experience: What is wrong with you?
Henry: Ovinophobia, my therapist calls it.
Experience: Well, what's that?
Henry: Just the completely unfounded and irrational fear that one day *this* is going to happen!
...
Experience: You're a tree.
Henry: I'm not a tree. I'm a fucking sheep!
...
Tucker: What about the sheep?
Angus Oldfield: Fuck the sheep!
Tucker: No time for that bro. Go go go!
...
Henry: What's that?
Experience: Geranium: aromatherapy for uplift and hormonal balance.
Henry: Do your hormones really need balancing?
Experience: Considering I've been attacked by genetically-engineered monsters, jumped off a moving vehicle, been chased across a paddock, dragged into a torture chamber, pulled into a mountain of rotting flesh - yes, my hormones need fucking balancing.
...
Henry: Are you OK?
Experience: I won't be OK ever again.

Link: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/black-sheep-2007

Rating perso: 6.0/10