

Experience finds the fact Grant consumed meat (even though it was organic) more horrific than his abrupt physical changes since she last saw him abandoning her in the woods.Īrmed with a sheep herding dog, Henry and Experience try to stay alive while working together to stop Angus from releasing his literal love child of a farming technique. The poor deluded dear has an all around awful day that changes his entire worldview and what he thought he was capable of or too “woke” to succumb to. He becomes all beast and tries to attack Henry and Experience when he finds them together, surviving many attacks while mutating into the most monstrous vegan ever to roam the earth. Grant is the first to change, slowly becoming more sheep-esque and, adding to his own private horror, begins to consume flesh. People who are bitten transform into weresheep and join in the killing spree.

The sheep tend to travel in packs, as herd animals are wont to do, meticulously running down and slaughtering anyone in their path. They are unusually aggressive with peculiar strength for a sheep as well as a hunger for human flesh and have been granted a +20 for survival. The characters soon learn that when normally docile sheep do not run away in fright, you should. They have had enough and are fighting back. The sheep revolt against their sadistic, profit focused captors. He intends to profit handsomely from his ungodly creations. What he presents is wildly different from the true horror that is his vision hidden in the barn, heavily borrowed from the event that permanently traumatized his brother as a child. He is going to present his prettied up creation to a group of investors and the media. We cannot see Angus’ vision and he does not care to explain the details, only that he feels 100% justified in his course of actions that led up to this dire day. They are genetically modified to revolutionize the farming industry. These are no ordinary sheep and the farm is far from its picturesque exterior. It breaks when he trips, unknowingly releasing the cause of the worst day of his life as the mutated sheep bites him before crawling off to infect the herd. Experience takes this moment to break things off with Grant but before he truly understands, the lab techs spook him off into the woods with the jar.

Holding what appears to be a preserved sheep fetus, they discuss their other failed attempts at saving animals that resulted in many animal lives lost “but they died free!”. Grant manages to steal a specimen jar and bolts with Experience into the woods, chased by lab techs. They catch the lab preparing to dispose of experiment waste under the direct supervision of a well known ethical disaster of a woman. They presume the farm is horrid to animals only because they are against exploiting animals in any fashion. Two hippies, Experience and Grant, are on a fact finding mission to gather evidence that will expose the lab for what it really is. Inside, his barns contain a vast lab dedicated to what exactly? We do not know but cruelty is the process. The sheep farm is only quaint from outward appearances. He may have overcome his limp but his fondness for using cruelty to gain power and respect has only grown stronger. Unbeknownst to Henry, Angus has a dark secret. Most of Black Sheep takes place decades later, Henry returns home for the first time since that day both to overcome his ovinaphobia and sell his half of the farm to Angus who is about to seal the deal on his life’s work. Their aunt intrudes to inform them their father has just died in an accident.
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Angus drenches himself in the sheep’s blood and adorns its skin for extra effect, permanently traumatizing Henry. Jealous, Angus kills and skins Henry’s beloved sheep, hanging it from the rafters in the barn. His older brother Angus appears to be bitterly excluded from many of the joys of farming due to a limp leg, the apparent black sheep of the family. Henry is an accomplished sheep herder even at 10 years old.

Black Sheep is a 2006 New Zealand film centered around two brothers who co-own a family sheep farm.
