646f9e108c When John takes his San Francisco friends to his deceased uncle&#39;s remote ranch to hunt wild pigs, it seems like a typical guys weekend with guns - despite the presence of John&#39;s sexy girlfriend Brooks. ButJohn and his crew trek deeper into the forest, they begin tracking the awful truth about his uncle&#39;s demise and the legend of The Ripper – a murderous three-thousand-pound black boar! Their pursuit leads them through fields of marijuana and into the muddy landscape of Big Wallow, involving high-powered weaponry, the violent and unpredictable Tibbs Brothers, massacred emus, a machete-toting Hippie Stranger, vengeful rednecks, and throat-slitting Cult Girls who grow dope by day and worship a Giant Killer Pig by night. By the time the pig hunt is done, no one is innocent - or unscathed. Not for the faint of heart, PIG HUNT is a darkly comic horror film that combines the best of DELIVERANCE, JAWS, and DINER, but remains uniquely Nor-Cal in its tone and scope. It is cinematic punkabilly - fresh, shocking, unforgettable! A mashup of elements from &quot;Razorback,&quot; &quot;Deliverance&quot; and other rural-peril faves, &quot;Pig Hunt&quot; proves an enjoyably offbeat hybrid horror exercise. Helmer Jim Isaac&#39;s first indie production, following several compromised studio efforts including sci-fi slasher &quot;Jason X,&quot; amplifies the quirkiness of Robert and Zach Anderson&#39;s screenplay by unpredictably mixing disparate pacing, tones, humor and brute action. Sum isn&#39;t entirely satisfying, and the current marketplace preference for formulaic scare pics won&#39;t help B.O. But fans tired of rote remakes and ripoffs will appreciate the pic&#39;s idiosyncrasy. It&#39;s currently playing limited theatrical gigs while in search of a wider distribution deal.<br/><br/>Four twentysomething buds, led by John (Travis Aaron Wade), leave San Francisco for a weekend of game hunting in rural Mendocino County, though the guys-only plan goes south when John&#39;s g.f. Brooks (Tina Huang) – who turns out to be the group&#39;s sharpest shooter – insists on coming along.<br/><br/>After being warned about an improbable 3,000-lb. &quot;Pigfoot&quot; (aka &quot;the Ripper&quot;) roaming wild, they acquire uninvited company in the form of two local yokels who have an apparent score to settle with John.<br/><br/>City-slicks-vs.-hicks tension soon gets ugly, resulting in full-on war waged by the large, inbred Tibbs clan against the panicked visitors. Meanwhile, carnivorous Hogzilla turns out to be no mythical beastie.<br/><br/>A local &quot;hippie commune&quot; consisting of one charismatic male (Bryonn Bain) and his sizable harem of Amazonian babes further adds to the eventual mayhem, which doesn&#39;t explode until halfway through the pic&#39;s runtime.<br/><br/>Slow start has its own rewards in atmosphere and slyly offbeat rhythms; when the porcine stool finally hits the fan, the action (especially that taking place chez Tibbs) is no-holds-barred muscular. Given the welcome sense that the story might lunge in any direction at any time, however, the final payoff (which involves some not-very-convincing creature effects) is a little less kicky than one might have hoped.<br/><br/>Perfs are enthusiastic, tech and design contribs above-average.<br/><br/>Score by Les Claypool of Primus adds to hipster cachet; he and blues mouth harpist Charlie Musselwhite contribute cameo roles. A bunch of multicultural guys and a girl go on a trip to the country. They go on a pig huntthey are military and one of them is a hunter. Once in the country they run into the neighbors. They are the stereotypical movie hillbillies. Two of them go along for the pig hunt. These people don&#39;t go along with each other at all, making for a very obnoxious, long and tedious 1:15 of the movie. The beginning of the movie hints at a large hog that eats horses. And there are rumors of a 3000 pound one roaming the country. Earlier in the movie the gang also run into some weird black guru and a couple of his drugged out hippie devotees. The last part of the movie gets entertainingthe remaining guys from the gang escape the violent hillbillies and end up at the cult&#39;s house and meet the giant boarwellsome sexy girls.<br/><br/>There is a troubling trend in horror movies to present our castnothing but bunch of annoying, bickering idiots, insulting and threatening each other for hours. I don&#39;t know who thinks that&#39;s entertaining. It&#39;s not. It&#39;s a pain. This movie for the most part follows that recipe but with an unattractive cast. There is a bit of violence and gore. But if you&#39;re into animal death, torture, and gore, then this movie is for youthe camera loves to linger on animal carcasses.<br/><br/>I give this movie 3 stars for the 7 or so topless girls bathing. Nothing else is worth watching here.
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