Man-Eating Sheep On The Loose!

New Zealand, where sheep literally outnumber humans by a ten to one ratio, is now exporting a movie about killer sheep chewing on humans. It is the Animal Uprising™ on steroids!

After decades of filling Britain's supermarket shelves with lamb, New Zealanders are exporting sheep of a different kind.

An extraordinary horror film that features a flesh-eating flock has gained cult status in a country where 40 million sheep outnumber people by a ratio of 10-to-1.

Black Sheep relates what happens when Henry Oldfield, a "sheep-phobic" whose fear of the animals dates back to a terrifying childhood experience, returns to the family farm to persuade his brother Angus to buy out his share.

Angus is running a reckless genetic engineering programme and when environmental activists release a mutant foetal lamb the farm's flock turns into rampaging carnivores thirsting for revenge on their human captors.

Since its eye-popping world premiere in Auckland, on what is claimed to be the world's largest cinema screen at 100ft wide and 33ft high, Black Sheep has become New Zealand's highest earning horror film. (Ed note: They have more than one?)

There is one thing missing from all this media attention. Sure, the movie is boffo box office and is being seen in more and more theaters. But that doesn't excuse the glaring error in the coverage. You see, this isn't a horror film.

It's a documentary.