2006 · horror · comedy · creature
Black Sheep
Directed by Jonathan King1h 26m2006
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.
Our read: Black Sheep (2006) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive horror · comedy · creature entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- funny
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