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Sometimes you run across the most awesome things completely by accident. That’s how I ended up watching “Black Sheep”, a New Zealand horror-comedy a few years ago.

It’s hard to describe the movie other than with the phrase “mutant zombie sheep” but think of Evil Dead 2…only with sheep. Yep, it’s that hilarious.

The story starts out with two young boys on farm in New Zealand. One of them is out herding the sheep with his father. The old brother gets jealous and plays a horrible prank on the younger boy when he returns. The combination of that and some devastating news at the same time gives the younger brother a severe phobia of sheep. It then picks up 15 years later when the younger brother, Henry, is returning to the farm to sell his part of it to his older brother, Angus. Angus has become known for his work to breed a new type of sheep that will outshine the others. While this is going on, a pair of folks (who are very hippie-ish) are trying to break into Angus’ lab to steal evidence of what they believe to be dangerous and extremely harmful experiments.