ArnoldReview: Black Sheep (2007): ***
Dir: Jonathon King
Starring: Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney
Animation by: The WETA workshop
If you've watched the trailer for this film, you are going to get exactly what you expect. The basic premise here is that genetic development of sheep for farming has created a mutant strain of sheep that are blood-thirsty. If you somehow manage to expect The Godfather instead of Evil Dead you will be greatly disappointed. But for what this film is, it's great.
A combination of the growing camp midnight movie genre and gore-porn, it's visually intense and a riot. It's comic brilliance. One of it's major assets is that it actually pulls off it's notion of conceptual humor. There aren't really any great one-liners or a surprisingly dense plot, but the concept of killer sheep is consistently funny throughout the film as director/writer Joanthon King continues to take the film to the next level.
Ok, so it's certainly not perfect (I only gave it 3 stars). The acting is patchy, Danielle Mason (who plays 'Experience') is terrible, every line a strain, her character makes the rather short film feel much longer until she shuts up and the fast paced sheep attacks resume. The plot is pretty shallow, while remaining functional to the sensationalist entertainment of the film. (I mean, really, it's about mutant sheep.) But those are the standards Evil Dead prepared the genre for. All in all I said Jonathon King's film is a success. It's not brilliant, but see it, it's not disappointing.
