"Razorback" is a really strange movie. It's got a good share of interesting cinematography. There are some impressive shots of the desert landscape. At times it looks beautiful but moments later, a character will be crawling around in the mud and filth of a boars' watering hole. There are bones and muck everywhere. Worse yet, the meat processing plant is a grimy, disgusting slaughterhouse full of kangaroo carcasses hanging from meat hooks. There's a couple of brothers who work at the meat plant. They basically terrorize people and nearly kill the wife of main character Carl, played by Gregory Harrison. In a strange turn, Carl hangs around the brothers (Benny and Dicko). They drink, kill a deer and then Carl is deserted by the bros, who look to be straight out of a "Mad Max" film. And Carl is such a pretty boy that it takes a stretch to believe Benny and Dicko wouldn't just waste him. I am a bit mystified by some of the raves I've read about the giant boar effect. It seemed like the director spent most of the time trying to hide it. Kind of like "Jaws" and its robot shark. The opening scene with the old man and his grandson was absolutely tragic and horrifying. It really brought shock value that not many movies have touched in my opinion. Unfortunately, the rest of "Razorback" can't hold that same level of terror. It drags at times and the characters do some very odd things that I'm not sure are intentionally weird or if the movie is trying to be funny. This is worth a watch but is nothing I would recommend to anyone that doesn't already enjoy monster flicks.

I bought the 4K of Razorback from Umbrella quite a while back, but never really ended up watching it. Well... today was the day... The Australian outback is a perfect setting for a creature feature like this. Everything out there will try to kill you... the environment, the critters, and even the local yokels apparently. The thing is... Russell Mulcahy makes it look even more bleak with the fog, the lighting, the dust. Everything suits the beasts, including both the human and boar variants. The tension building is great, the releases works quite nicely as well, and everything ends in an ending that... I didn't enjoy as much as the rest of the film, but it works for what it is. All-in-all... Quite a decent watch. I really liked it!! Recommended!!!

Super strong intro. Then just kinda goes nowhere for the next hour, and finally ramps back up a little in the final act

Catching up before it's leaving Shudder. After the disappearance of his wife, who was filming a documentary in a small, isolated town deep in the Australian Outback, the husband discovers that she was taken by a giant, mean boar. It is now a battle of man against beast. Not a big fan of animal attack films but this one's not what I was expecting at all. This film is very odd. It's strangely cut, not enough boar attacks, and the kills are mostly off-screen, but I love its campy premise and I wasn't prepared for the amazing visuals and fantastic camerawork throughout. It's stylized extremely well with some captivating dream sequence. I feel like those are not needed for this type of film but those elements keep this film engaging and definitely add to my enjoyment. The special effects used to bring the boar to life are also very impressive.

_Razorback_ is bad, even by 80's standards, but fuck me if it didn't remind me how much I love bad 80s movies. An Australian low budget _Jaws_, where the shark is replaced by a giant pig. If they want to have the same popularity, they're gonna need a bigger boar.