It’s not a social comment about mental illness, depression, divorce or suicide but it could have been. First time feature director Roxburgh doesn’t preach, simply selecting snippets of Gaita’s life from the book with which to tell the story of the crippling relationship of love, awe, fear and forgiveness he shares with his Dad.

Black Sheep is no ordinary horror film. We’ve seen zombies, sharks, werewolves and even androids tear hapless victims limb from limb, but this is the first film to contain mass disembowelling by ovine farm animal.

The breakout work of the genre, 1980’s Airplane/Flying High, was the mother lode of parody comedies, with both visual and scripting jokes flying at a pace you could hardly keep pace with.