Pig Hunt

Directed by James Isaac. Written by Robert Mailer Anderson and Zack Anderson. Starring Travis Aaron Wade, Tina Huang, and Les Claypool.

Pig Hunt Productions - 2008

Two Stars of Review!

There are two things I would not recommend concerning Pig Hunt: 1) Don't say the name out loud ten times fast in polite company and 2) Don't watch Pig Hunt. You see, one day I heard that Less Claypool was going to be in a movie. I rushed to the net to watch the trailer, but what I saw caused me to have to fight not to put my own eyes out. Fortunately I can report that Pig Hunt is far better than that trailer, however, I also must report that Pig Hunt is not a good movie.

What we have here is a film of the “everything and the kitchen sink” variety. You've got gore, massive amounts of profanity, nudity, girl on girl action, homicidal rednecks, drug use, mockery of the Christian religion, a ten foot tall three thousand pound pig that somehow manages to constantly sneak up on people without making any noise, and an anti-war message as subtle as... well, the rest of the movie. Not to mention Less Claypool who couldn't convincingly deliver the three short lines he was given.

There are some truly intense moments to be found, including a sequence involving actual bore hunting, but everything else outside of these moments is so aggressively stupid that it might cause your faith in humanity to wain just a little. Sure, some of it is intended to make you laugh, but even those moments are played so straight that they feel completely out of place. And I know it's not unique to this film, but is it too much to ask for a horror flick not populated with characters that make me want to murder them?