Tuesday, January 12, 2010

RAZORBACK (1984)

RAZORBACK is an odd film. Not because there's a pissed off pig the size of a van killing people (that's just strange), but because it's really not that great of a movie and yet fascinating to look at. The reason being is the cinematography by Dean (THE ROAD WARRIOR, DANCES WITH WOLVES, APOCALYPTO) Semler gives the entire film a surreal feeling to it.

Anyway, down in Australia you got this huge razorback going around squealing and gnawing on people. A reporter from America comes down on assignment to do a report on kangaroo hunting and end up gets killed by the giant pig. Her husband is fed some bullshit story about how she fell down a mineshaft, so he comes down and he wants some straight answers goddamn it!!!

None of that really matters cuz all you want to see is the giant pig in action. Unfortunately, we never get any great shots of him running around kicking ass, it's all pretty much shoulder and face shots. No gore, no tits, but the camerawork is interesting. Worth a watch for those curious.