Shot on location in Watts, Los Angeles on a budget of less than $10,000, KILLER OF SHEEP examines the black ghetto in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Never released due to its expensive music rights, KILLER OF SHEEP was nonetheless among the first 50 films on the National Film Registry and selected by the National Society of Film Critics as one of the “most essential” motion pictures of all time. Now, thirty years after its debut, the new 35mm print of KILLER OF SHEEP, brilliantly restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive, receives its long-awaited theatrical release.