Black Sheep

Sheep aren't the most terrifying creatures, so the image of docile fluffballs flocking over a picturesque New Zealand landscape is hardly the stuff of nightmares. Yet it's this incongruity which is the basis for the one trick joke in zombie thriller, Black Sheep. Two brothers (Meister and Feeney) feud over the family farm, which is being enhanced by the work of crazy genetic scientists, but even this purposely hokum storyline is undermined by simple characters and a flat script. Director Jonathan King ensures enough blood and guts to entertain, however, and everything from an infected lamb foetus to business men fighting off rampant beasts with their own chewed off legs is rendered in the highest quality gore. Black Sheep aspires to comedy horrors Shaun of the Dead and An American Werewolf in London, but just doesn't raise enough laughs with its undead livestock. [Emma Lennox]