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Post by Noel on Oct 16, 2007 20:00:47 GMT -5
Heard mixed reviews of this one. This poster did catch my attention, though: |
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Post by dedwyre on Oct 16, 2007 23:29:43 GMT -5
I saw this on DVD at Wal-Mart. I'm gonna rent it sometime. I've been in the mood for silly horror movies recently. In fact, the back showed a picture that looked like a sheep in a shirt, and I was like, "Were-sheep?!" Well, you never know...
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Post by Marcus on Oct 17, 2007 3:15:43 GMT -5
I've seen a trailer for it, and read a bit about it. Sounds like it should be rather a fun horror/comedy film.
It's one I plan on adding to my dvd collection.
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Post by Werewolf on Oct 17, 2007 3:24:47 GMT -5
I've seen a trailer for it and heard mixed reviews. I'll just catch it on Sky when it comes on.
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Post by Noel on Oct 17, 2007 8:58:43 GMT -5
I did hear one review which mentioned were-sheep.
I see a baaaaah-d moon rising.
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Post by darkwolfavenged on Oct 17, 2007 14:07:51 GMT -5
I saw it on Sunday and enjoyed it. I dont really know what people who hated it were expecting. It was pretty much what I thought it would be. For what it's worth my mini review I posted on my MySpace page is below. Black Sheep An incredibly daft Kiwi horror/comedy about mutant man eating sheep created from genetic experiments by a crazy farmer in order to create the perfect GM flock. If you've seen early Peter Jackson films like Bad Taste and Braindead then you'll get where this is coming from. The whole idea is just really silly and the movie throws in as many sheep related gags as it can come up with. We even get people becoming ravenous man eating weresheep. It never reaches the truly inspired and over the top lunacy of Jackson 's early movies, but if you're a fan of this type of flick it's still entertaining and amusing enough in its own right. It's also worth seeing just for the excellent creature and makeup FX provided by Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop and supervised by Richard Taylor who also supervised the work on Lord of the Rings. Shear terror, but ewe know it makes sense.  |
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Post by Marcus on Oct 18, 2007 3:55:23 GMT -5
Your mini review makes it sound just as I imagined it would be, a silly horror film.
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Post by cmoney on Oct 18, 2007 8:09:40 GMT -5
Darkwolfavenged has got it pretty spot-on. It takes a while to build up, but once it did, I had a lot of fun with it.
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Post by darkwolfavenged on Oct 18, 2007 10:47:00 GMT -5
Your mini review makes it sound just as I imagined it would be, a silly horror film. Yarp. That is what it is. It's well made and always fun - if never getting up to Braindead, Evil Dead 2, Shaun of the Dead levels of horror and mirth. |
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Oct 19, 2007 6:49:50 GMT -5
Looks cool, although I'm not counting on seeing it on DVD around here...  |
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Post by Werewolf on Oct 20, 2007 14:39:23 GMT -5
I like comedy horrors. Although i was slightly disapointed with Slither. But still it had Nathan Fillion in it so i was happy with it!
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Post by Noel on Oct 21, 2007 10:36:50 GMT -5
Yeah, if I was a woman I'd totally dig Nathan Fillion.
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Post by Marcus on Oct 22, 2007 3:30:32 GMT -5
What's interesting with the Slithers is that it's based on an earlier film.
But, in a way it's a prequal almost. As in the first one, some teens break into a mortuary/lab and find an infected body. Where in this version they crash onto the earth. So it could be argued that one of the bodies were "put on ice" after this one, and some years later they were released in the older film. Interesting.
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Post by Werewolf on Oct 22, 2007 4:32:37 GMT -5
What's interesting with the Slithers is that it's based on an earlier film. But, in a way it's a prequal almost. As in the first one, some teens break into a mortuary/lab and find an infected body. Where in this version they crash onto the earth. So it could be argued that one of the bodies were "put on ice" after this one, and some years later they were released in the older film. Interesting. I'd not heard that before but frankly as Nathan Fillion isn't in this original movie i can't see me being bothered about watching it! Having said that though, not even Nathan's presence can get me to watch Desperate Housewives  |
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Post by Marcus on Oct 22, 2007 5:13:45 GMT -5
One of the promotional statements from the original went something like
"The good news is their dates have arrieved to pick them up for the prom,
The bad news is their dead"
Technically the name came from one film (about a genetic created parasite that begins to infect the people of a tower block - one of those 'only in the 80s' type of B-horror film) and the main part of the idea comes form the other film Night of the Creeps (about a parasite that infects a bunch of college kids that infect others by the black slugs entering the mouths of the victim - Horror Comedy)
Personally I think both films are worth watching for different reasons. though they are both very dated.
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