Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

JLRVancouver "Razorback" is a brutal, strikingly filmed, Australian entry in the 'natural horror' canon that features an immense razorback boar terrorizing the outback. The film opens with the titular creature tearing though the home of Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) and carrying off his grandson. No one believes Cullen, but with insufficient evidence to prove that he killed the child, he is released and begins a vendetta against the wild pigs. Later, while searching for his wife (an American animal-rights activist that disappeared while investigating kangaroo hunting), Carl Winter (Gregory Harrison) comes face to face with the tusked monster. The film is not for the faint-hearted: there are a number of scenes in a dilapidated pet-food factory full of rats and kangaroo corpses that is run by two extremely loathsome characters, a number of grotesque killings, lots of scenes of mud, blood and decay, and endless death motifs. The film has a similar aesthetic to 1981's "Mad Max 2" (Dean Semler was cinematographer on both films), including bizarre characters, mechano-punk vehicles, and glorious shots of the stark but beautiful Australian desert. There is also an excellent surreal dream sequence as a delusional and hallucinating Carl, abandoned to die in the desert, struggles to stay alive. Not to everyone's taste but, all in all, an entertainingly grim horror yarn with a solid (if simple) story, a good script, great visuals, and a few surprises.

jadavix Billed as "Jaws" in the outback, "Razorback" is more like a toothless cross between "Wake in Fright" and "Mad Max". The killer pig is barely seen throughout the run time and you are never encouraged to be scared of it.More menacing (though not by much) are a group of post-apocalyptic looking kangaroo shooters who intend to rape a young American newsreader doing a report on animal cruelty. Of course she doesn't really get raped - this is only a horror movie, after all - the pig conveniently arrives to kill her instead (which we don't see happen).Then her spouse shows up and we get not one but two nightmare sequences which do less to establish the pig as the thing we are supposed to be afraid of than the hunters. They are not believable characters, though, and they're more irritating than intimidating.Anyway, the movie disposes of both so easily that you wonder why you were ever supposed to care. You never really get to see the "razorback", and its death scene is singularly unconvincing and underwhelming.In actual fact, the pig deserves some kind of medal for humanity - a Porcine Peace Prize, if you will - for always arriving to perform acts of mercy. For example, when the young lady is going to be raped, she is spared that fate and is merely killed (rape is worse than murder, right?) Later when her spouse is going to take revenge, he hesitates before pulling the trigger, and what do you know? There's the pig again, taking the crisis out of the Canuck's hands and killing the would-be rapist for him.

Perception_de_Ambiguity One striking shot follows the next in this monster B-movie, and the overall tone of the visuals is beautiful, I think. And there is some thick, intense atmosphere. In those departments it's so stunning that the many flaws can't ruin the film. The acting is OK all in all but there are some moments that make you want to put your head through the next wall. The action scenes and especially the ones with the razorback, a huge boar, are more or less comprehensible in that you get the basic idea of what's going on but all the crucial scenes happen between cuts, so the editing is jumpy, kind of like a TV edit. The worst example is the movie's finale and the destruction of the monster, which after an exhaustingly loud, dark, monotonous battle between man and monster plot-wise also ends on a ridiculous and schmaltzy note and so the film leaves you with a bad aftertaste. But those visuals, man, those visuals... It's kinda like a more extreme 'Alien³'. Worse plot, more stunning visuals. What else could I do but consider this a new B-movie favorite?

bebop63-1 Went to borrow the DVD because the 20 to 1 TV show episode featuring Top 20 Movie Monsters rated the Razorback #11 on the list - beating Jaws (a mere #18) and King Kong (#20!). Bunged the disc in the DVD player expecting a nice horror flick to enjoy on a rainy night - big letdown! The big pig appears only in fleeting moments throughout the film and moves too slowly for a monster hellbent on consuming every human that gets in its path. It wasn't scary enough to send hairs standing on end, the whacko duo Dicko and Benny should've featured in the title role instead (Razorheads?). Even if the production was done on a limited budget, they could've been more realistic in depicting a pig in its natural environment. Also an explanation of how one particular porcine could grow to abnormally large size while the rest of the herd remained within normal proportions is in order.Don't waste money buying the DVD.