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3->'''Experience:''' What's wrong with you?
4->'''Henry:''' Ovinophobia, my therapist calls it.
5->'''Experience:''' What's that?
6->'''Henry:''' (''As they're being attacked by a killer sheep'') Just the completely unfounded and irrational fear that one day THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!
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82007 [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror horror/comedy]] film directed by Jonathan King and produced by the UsefulNotes/NewZealand Film Commission.
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10Henry Oldfield and his brother Angus help their father raise sheep. A [[DeadlyPrank tasteless prank]] involving Henry being attacked by his older brother who's wearing the skin of Henry's beloved pet sheep Dudley, followed by news of their father's death due to an accident, results in Henry developing severe ovinophobia, fear of sheep. This causes him to leave New Zealand and not return until his brother asks to buy Henry's share of the farm, as Angus plans to use modern bioengineering methods to create better sheep. As Henry is shown about the farm, members of an AnimalWrongsGroup, Grant and Experience, steal a sample from Angus's laboratory and accidentally release a bioengineered lamb - which then proceeds to infect the rest of the flock, thus creating hordes of bloodthirsty sheep.
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12Not to be confused with the [[Film/BlackSheep1996 Chris Farley/David Spade film]].
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15!!This film provides examples of:
16* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Killer sheep. Really.
17* AnimalWrongsGroup: WEKA. Although it sounds like Grant is the reason things keep going wrong.
18* BaaBomb: Near the end of the movie, the infected sheep have been safely corraled, but there's not enough medicine to cure them all. Multiple sheep farting makes Henry realize they have an alternative way of ridding themselves of the sheep...
19* BestialityIsDepraved: Angus is revealed to have had carnal relations with the sheep on the farm. Bonus points for it being incestuous.
20-->'''Henry''': What are you doing?!
21-->'''Angus''': You wouldn't understand.
22-->'''Henry''': I understand you've got a pretty fucked up idea of animal husbandry!
23** Referenced earlier in a joke between Henry and Tucker.
24-->'''Henry''': Fuck the sheep!
25-->'''Tucker''': No time for that mate!
26* BigBad: Angus. [[BigBrotherBully He traumatised Henry at a young age,]] compelling him to move to the city and leaving the estate to Angus. Angus then innovated the farm by setting up a lab for genetic engineering, which the scientists then exploited for their own mad purposes and created the mutant lamb that would then set off the plot of the film. After getting infected, Angus planned to travel to the city and start an epidemic, potentially turning all of New Zealand into were-sheep.
27* BlackComedyRape: While Henry is trying to cross the field of killer sheep disguised by a wool seat cover, one of the rams takes quite a bit of interest in his crawling form...
28* BlackSheep: At the beginning of the film, it's Angus, who apparently can't participate in the herding of the sheep due to a bad leg. Later, Henry's ovinophobia makes him the effective black sheep of the family due to being unable to help with the family business.
29* BoomHeadshot: There's a lot of these.
30* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
31-->'''Henry''': You've been bitten.
32-->'''Angus''': It's nothing, just some hippy.
33-->'''Henry''': You'll become one of them!
34-->'''Angus''': ''([[FateWorseThanDeath horrified]])'' A hippy?!
35* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: Angus and the infected flesh-eating sheep are killed and the surviving were-sheep get cured turning back into humans. But then the sheepdog ''bleats''...]]
36* FleshEatingZombie: The sheep and were-sheep who are {{Technically Living Zombie}}s will eat people alive like an addict burying their nose in coke, and anyone who survives a bite from one of them will turn into a were-sheep.
37* {{Foreshadowing}}: In their youth, Angus scared Henry by wearing the bloodied pelt of a sheep he'd just slaughtered and pretending to be a sheep-monster. Years later, Angus would transform into an actual sheep monster and attack Henry, in the same barn where Henry's trauma first began.
38* GranolaGirl: Experience, with Grant as an even more extreme male example.
39* GroinAttack: Angus gets the mother of these thanks to a sheep.
40* HelicopterBlender: A variation. Were-sheep!Angus gets severely wounded by the moving propeller of the family plane.
41* IAteWhat: Experience's reaction in the epilogue to learning she's eating sheep testicles.
42* InadequateInheritor: Tucker calls Angus this compared to the brothers' father. Angus retorts with an angry, but [[VillainHasAPoint accurate]] response.
43-->'''Tucker''': Your father was ten times the farmer you are!
44-->'''Angus''': My father fell off a cliff chasing a wool-blind ewe.
45* InnocentlyInsensitive: After narrowly escaping a truck that plunges off a cliff, Experience remarks that she wouldn't like to fall from such a height. Henry then points out they're standing at the place where his father fell to his death in an unfortunate accident years before.
46* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Angus tells Henry that [[spoiler: he'd provided "genetic material" for the hybrid experiments]], Henry calls him a fucker - Angus retorts that he'd masturbated to provide said material, prompting Henry to call him "Wanker" instead. Angus just says that it was the price of progress.
47* MassOhCrap: Angus and his potential investors when they see a massive herd of carnivorous sheep heading straight for them.
48* MoodWhiplash: The DVD menu keeps switching between a footage of a sheep melancholically chewing its cud alternated with clips of rabid sheep attacking.
49* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Astrid Rush, the scientist helping Angus develop his new sheep, is definitely this.
50* NoodleIncident: WEKA appears to have had several of these:
51-->'''Experience''': This isn't going to be like the salmon farm again, is it Grant?
52-->'''Grant''': Hey, those fish died free!
53** Also referenced about Dr. Astrid Rush:
54-->'''Experience''': Who'd hire ''her'' after that thing with the leeches?
55** Experience also references another one to Tucker from her early days of activism:
56-->'''Tucker''': ''[after Experience has given a long winded speech about how the Maori should appreciate efforts to preserve New Zealand's natural heritage]'' Learn all that at university, did you? Before you dropped out, I mean?
57-->'''Experience''': I didn't 'drop out'; I just missed exams while we were occupying a poultry farm.
58* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Mutant Zombie Were-sheep
59* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being an animal welfare activist, Experience enjoys headshotting and running down were-sheep a bit too much.
60* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Experience threatens Henry and Tucker with a rifle before they point out that the safety is on. Having no idea how to fix it, they do it for her, and naturally don't give it back.
61* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Astrid Rush's reaction to find herself stuck in a bog and surrounded by carnivorous sheep]].
62** Angus's reaction to a sheep biting down on [[GroinAttack a tender part of his anatomy]].
63* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Were-sheep. Infected humans initially experience a SlowTransformation into them, and they're about as feral and flesh-hungry as the sheep are.
64* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They're sheep! That turn humans into were-sheep! They're the result of TheVirus that originated from a laboratory-mutated sheep fetus [[PlagueZombie causing the mutagen to spread among the sheep via bites]]. The infected sheep appear to be {{Technically Living Zombie}}s and are [[FleshEatingZombie Flesh-Eating Zombies]], indistinguishable from normal sheep save for the fact that they pounce on people and try to eat them alive.
65* PlagueZombie: TheVirus started with a mutated fetus as patient zero. From the little monster-critter, through bites the mutagen spread through bites among the sheep and crossed to humans (creating were-sheep). The most notable symptom in the sheep is [[FleshEatingZombie ravenous hunger for human flesh]].
66* RaisingTheSteaks: The killer sheep are essentially zombie ([[OurZombiesAreDifferent Type P]]) sheep who can turn humans into [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-sheep]]. [[spoiler: And in the ending it seems that the virus has infected the farm's herding dog]].
67* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Angus gives Henry a short one.
68-->'''Angus''': Look at you; a fifth generation farmer's son scared of a few sheep. You ''do'' need therapy!
69* ReusableLighterToss: Methane and flame don't mix well.
70* SheepInWolfsClothing: Angus and [[spoiler:Henry]] find that their infection lets them walk among the killer sheep unharmed.
71* ShoutOut:
72** The cage where the "uber-sheep" is kept resembles the Velociraptor container from the opening scene of ''Film/JurassicPark''.
73** The movie was also meant as a throwback to Creator/PeterJackson's early horror comedy films such as ''Film/BadTaste'' and ''Film/BrainDead'', the mutant lamb especially feels like something out of those movies.
74** The characters barricading themselves in a house from the outside monsters is a nod to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
75** The were-sheep transformation scene is a homage to ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''.
76** WETA did the special effects for the film. WEKA is the name of the AnimalWrongsGroup in the film. Even better is that both are named after actual New Zealand animals. [[note]]A weta is a type of large cricket-like insect, while a weka is a small flightless bird.[[/note]]
77* SlowTransformation: The transformation into a were-sheep starts out as this as the initial changes are gradual, but then they suddenly speed up toward the end.
78* SmokingHotSex: Angus locks himself, and the "prototype" of a new breed of sheep, in his study to protect them from man-eating sheep. When we next see him, he's smoking a cigarette and bottomless.
79* SweetSheep: Horribly, horribly subverted! Henry used to like sheep as a child, until his brother traumatized him by killing his pet lamb and seen wearing his skin resulting in him developing a phobia for sheep. Not helping is the mutant lamb who infects the flock and become killing machines.
80* TechnicallyLivingZombie: The mutagen turns the ''sheep'' into these. TheVirus was created in a lab, and the sheep will eat human flesh if they get close.
81* ThanksForTheMammary: Henry accidentally feels up Experience while they're bouncing in the bed of the pickup.
82* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Angus is successfully cured from the were-sheep virus, but he's so obsessed with the genetic research and his love for sheep that he runs back into the flock to get infected again, only for the sheep to devour him because he was covered in blood]].
83* TheVirus: Besides turning the sheep into ferocious flesh-eaters, the mutagen (which is spread from host to host through bites) can cross to sheep-bitten humans, in which case it turns them into likewise-carnivorous were-sheep.
84* WeaksauceWeakness: Despite being horrific monsters, the were-sheep are still sheep, and thus easily kept in check by a sheepdog.
85* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The mutant lamb that infects Grant and the flock only has two appearances and is never seen again.

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