10 Criminally Low IMDb Movie Ratings You Won’t Believe

7. Black Sheep

IMDb Rating: 5.8

A horror film involving killer sheep sounds like something even The Asylum would pass on. Sheep are docile farm animals that bolt the moment a human comes near; to make them into ravenous hoards is just too big a leap into ridiculous - it'd be impossible to take seriously.

That's something that Black Sheep knows through and through, leading to a movie that fully embraces its bonkers concept, made all the funnier because it's New Zealand, land of the sheep. What makes Black Sheep actually work, however, is how it still commits to being a horror. There isn't pre-Heavenly Creatures Jackson levels of gore, but the creature design is impeccable (there's mutated sheep embryos and semi-transformed humans to marvel at) and some of the set pieces do get the heart pounding, even if only for a moment.

So often Black Sheep is categorised as a so-bad-its-good film, little more than a latter-day B-movie, but there's a knowingness here that betrays such a dismissive put-down. In fact, it's more of a loving tribute to those sort of movies, the genre clichés and characters who fit broad stereotypes all intended. Such intentions have the surprising effect of making it actually better than what it is at first homaging.