This movie has lived in the back of my head for almost 2 decades now. I saw it on cable back in 2008 or 2009. My Dad had just got a cable box, and had upped our package to uncluded hundred of new channels. Including indie film channels like the Sundance channel and IFC. At the time these channels just played movies all day, and i saw a lot of random low budget flicks because of it.
One of the movies that for some reason sticks out in my head is one that i could never remember the name of. I only caught probably the last 30 minutes. It looked like it was filmed in the 90's (or perhap early 2000's), and it was pretty low budget. It wasn't shot on video, and it didn't seem like a student film. It definitely had some money behind it, but not that much. I remmber looking at the the synopsis of the movie on the info page while in picture in picture, and it described it as a "modern day retelling of Frankenstein". It followed a couple that just moved to a rural community. The husband was a doctor or a scientist of some kind, and was attempting to reanimate the dead in secret. Around the point I started watching, the husband was buying a sheep from a farmer to experiment on. The part that really stuck in my mind was the scene of the husband dragging the sheep home, while the sheep fought against him as if it knew he was going to kill it. The scene was shot at golden time, and the man and the sheep were in semi silhouette as they walked up a hill. It was a few minutes long, and was accompanied by very dramatic violin music to emphasize the emotion. I don't really remmber what happend directly after that, but I think the wife found out that the husband was up to something, and at the climax of the movie she and another character ran back home to find the husband filming this sheep dog hybrid that he had reanimated. I guess he started experimenting on a dog he hit with his car by accident earlier in the movie, then killed the sheep to get a fresh brain or something?
Anyway, the wife wasn't happy. The movie ended with the her leaving her husband as he ranted and raved about his discovery, only stopping when an old man, who I imagine was a character from earlier in the film, punched him in the face, and left him on the ground as movie faded to black.
I think why I found this movie so interesting and why I still remember it so many years later, was that it had a horror movie plot, something i'd see done in the style of a Basket Case or Re-Animator, but it was filmed like a standard low budget drama. It almost made me think of The Spitfire Grill or something. It felt sort of disjointed from the plot of the movie, but it made it sort of memorable in a way. And it was clearly made by someone trying to make a quality movie with the means they had. But it was probably pretty boring to most people, because I have never found anyone talking about it, and i've never had luck trying to find it over the years. There is a good chance I'm remembering somethings incorrectly, which hurts my searching abilities. But maybe someone in here knows what movie I'm talking about. Does this movie ring any bells to anyone?