Pig Hunt
Pig Hunt
| 31 July 2008 (USA)

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When John takes his San Francisco friends to his deceased uncle's remote ranch to hunt wild pigs, it seems like a typical guys weekend with guns - despite the presence of John's sexy girlfriend Brooks. But as John and his crew trek deeper into the forest, they begin tracking the awful truth about his uncle's demise and the legend of The Ripper -- a murderous three-thousand-pound black boar!

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StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Michael O'Keefe Not for the faint of heart. James Isaac directs this gory low budget flick from Fangoria. John Hickman(Travis Aaron Wade)puts together a hunting weekend for some of his San Francisco buddies that is suppose to be a guys-only thing; but somehow John's girlfriend Brooks(Tina Huang)is a tag-a-long. Fine; John hustles the group off to his late uncle's property in the boondocks to hunt wild pigs. This outing will not be a typical weekend trip...there will be hillbillies, hippies, massive marijuana fields, muddy wallows and the legend of a big ass 3,000 pound wild boar named "The Ripper". Things get violent, insane and bloody. Others in the cast: Howard Johnson Jr., Trevor Bullock, Jason Foster, Rajiv Shah and Christina McKay.
BA_Harrison Even though the whole backwoods hillbilly horror thing has been done to death over the years, I never tire of toothless inbreds attacking any city-folk dumb enough to tray onto their turf; throw in a commune of marijuana farming, free loving hippies with a flesh-eating 3000lb mutant pig in their backyard and I'm in hog heaven!Jason X director James Isaac makes amends for his god-awful 2006 werewolf flick Skinwalkers by giving us one of the most enjoyable, bloody and fun films of recent years. Pig Hunt might start in familiar territory, with its typically clichéd group of weekend warrior blokes (and token babe) wishing they had stayed at home after they upset the local rednecks, but it eventually carves its own identity with the introduction of its drug dealing love cult and their prodigious porker. At this point, all logic flies out the window, umpteen hot women get their breasts out, and people start disappearing down the gullet of the biggest boar since Russell Mulcahy's Razorback—and if that ain't quality entertainment, then I don't know what is!7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.
JoeB131 Actually, it was kind of a mish-mash to where you didn't know what it was.. I mean, was there some kind of tectonic shift where California is right next to Arkansas? Because that's the only way I could explain how inbred, bible thumping rednecks could be smack dab right next to dope-smoking hippies who worship giant pigs for some reason.Smake dab into this mess comes our hero and his girlfriend, an Asian actress actually playing a character with a little depth and not a token or stereotype. He brings some of his buddies to go hunting, but everyone seems a bit off. They go to his uncles house, and find it full of graffiti, animal parts and scrapbook clippings. Never really explained why.But overall, this movie is overcrowded with too much stuff going on, few likable characters, and much of it seems like filler for the whole ten minutes the monster is on screen.
kosmasp I will start with the one really good thing about the movie! It's the sound(track). I really loved it. It's a bit country mixed with other influences and it really worked for me. Not everyone at the Festvial I watched this at, was as hyped about it as me though, but that's how everyone receives certain things.Now onto the problems: There is not much happening in the movie. And while the direction it takes (concentrating on the characters) is not really a bad one, it doesn't have either the script/dialog nor the actors to carry something like that. Still a few (too little) action set pieces and some fine moments plus the music prevent this movie from falling completely down ...