Title – Black Sheeps (2026)
Director – Jonathan King (Black Sheep)
Cast – Nathan Meister, Ian Harcourt, Tabatha Killick, Lucia Davison
Plot – 20 years on from the events seen in the original film, the bloodthirsty collection of ravenous New Zealand sheep are back to wreak havoc on humankind.
“They’re baaaaaack!”
Review by Eddie on 13/11/2026
The sequel you never knew you needed and perhaps many never expected, the 2006 New Zealand cult hit horror/comedy Black Sheep finds itself back alive once more 20 years on from its initial chaotic arrival in the form of the bloodthirsty and demented Black Sheeps.
Helming the madness once more, writer/director Jonathan King returns willing and unsuspecting viewers to a small, seemingly sleepy little New Zealand town where many have scars both literal and figurative from a traumatic killer sheep incident many moons ago with a new bout of terror set to terrorise them when a murderous fluffy flock set loose on local residents.
With the very core of its concept utterly insane and with its tongue firmly in cheek much like its forefather, Sheeps is not high-brow viewing and is clearly never intending to be as King and his game cast and crew set up upping the claret spilling madness to new levels with the help of the Peter Jackson manicured Weta Workshop on creature feature duties.
Built around a wafer-thin plot that sees Tabatha Killick’s Oats try and make sense of some bizarre local happenings only to find her path crossing with the original films main man Henry Oldfield (a returning Nathan Meister), there’s little to write home about when it comes to Sheeps narrative but that’s not why anyone (including the cast and crew) is here, and when it comes to the main event and the ticket seller, Sheeps delivers some fantastic bloody wildness.
Culminating in one of the year’s most off-kilter finales and loaded with some downright masterful practical effects work from Weta’s talented team of monster makers, Sheeps is inspired lunacy in many regards and there’s a lot of silly joys to be taken from a product like this that so clearly is relishing in its unhinged nature and chance to once more let loose the sheepy hounds of Glenolden Station on cinema screens once more.
Undoubtedly set to be a huge local hit on its home turf thanks to its many New Zealand inspired in-jokes and references as well as the good-will around the 2006 original, Sheeps is going to play universally well across the globe for anyone wanting to watch a devilishly designed tale such as this that brings to mind the early works of Peter Jackson when he was all Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles not Lord of the Rings and Lovely Bones.
In a world where people and things often take themselves too seriously, Sheep’s stands out as a confident outsider that is unashamed to show its true colours throughout.
Final Say –
Fans of the original rejoice as Black Sheeps is back, bigger and baaaaader than ever. Revelling in its low-budget goodness and basking in its bloody joys, one suspects there’s a long shelf life in the cult aisles awaiting Jonathan King’s decades in the making sequel from here on out.
3 lambingtons out of 5
