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Prepare yourself for the violence of the lambs, because Black Sheep is coming to 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on September 3 via Australia’s Umbella Entertainment.

The 2006 New Zealand horror comedy newly restored in 4K, supervised by writer-director Jonathan King, with Hdr.

Special features:

Audio Commentary by Writer-Director Jonathan King and Actor Nathan Meister Audio Commentary by Critics Matt Donato and Rob Hunter (new) Interview with Writer-Director Jonathan King (new) From Bad Taste to Black Sheep: Mapping the Gory History of New Zealand Splatstick with Dr Alfio Leotta (new) Genetic Experiments Gone Wrong in Film with David Michael Brown (new) Jonathan King Interviewed by The Bazura Project 2007 (new) A Ewe-nique Transformation: Make-up Test (new) The Making of Black Sheep featurette 5 Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Jonathan King and Nathan Meister Blooper Reel Cast and Crew Interviews B-Roll Trailer

The standard version, which comes with a slipcase featuring new art by Austen Mengler,...

Fans of cult classic New Zealand horror Black Sheep will be surprised to discover the bonkers gore-fest is officially getting a sequel after almost 20 years. According to Deadline, original director and star Jonathan King and Nathan Meister, respectively, are returning for more of the horror-comedy that answered the question of what would happen if a bunch of sheep turned into bloodthirsty creatures long before The Boys offered up their take on the idea.

For those unfamiliar with the original, Black Sheep took the idea of genetic experiments gone wrong and added a touch of low-budget absurdity into the mix. The end result was a movie that followed Henry Oldfield (Meister), who, while dealing with his phobia-level fear of sheep, becomes caught up in a horrifying nightmare of the wooly kind. What begins as odd behavior among the flocks very quickly becomes something more sinister as the sheep population takes a...

Back in 2006, writer/director Jonathan King brought us the “nature run amok” horror comedy Black Sheep, about killer, genetically altered sheep. That movie surpassed Peter Jackson‘s early works to become New Zealand’s most successful horror movie ever. Now, Deadline reports that the killer sheep are coming back for Black Sheep 2! King is returning to the helm for the sequel, working from a script he crafted with Matthew Grainger and Rosie Howells.

Black Sheep had the following synopsis: Sheep-fearing Henry (Nathan Meister) returns to his brother’s (Peter Feeney) New Zealand farm, hoping his sibling will buy out his share of the property. However, what he finds are genetically altered sheep that prey on humans and turn their victims into undead, woolly killers. Shear madness ensues as Henry, an animal-rights activist (Danielle Mason) and a farmhand (Tammy Davis) set out to stop the rampaging animals. Meister will be reprising...

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