With a bigger budget and more confidence placed in him by Fox, director Tim Story delivers bigger effects and more of them, but no amount of pixel engineering can save a by-numbers plot and some of the worst dialogue since Star Wars Episode I.

Shy, retiring modern guy Fletch (Corden) is under the thumb of his bitchy girlfriend. His comic sidekick mate Jimmy (Horne) talks him into going on a hiking holiday to get away from it all, so they pierce the dark, eerie woods near a rural town straight out of An American Werewolf in London, complete with a pub full of grizzled, socially backward locals who know of a terrible curse that’s befallen the village centuries ago.

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.