Pig Hunt (2008)

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 ... See full summary »

Director:

James Isaac

Writers:

Robert Mailer Anderson, Zack Anderson

Stars:

Travis Aaron Wade, Tina Huang, Howard Johnson Jr.

4 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Travis Aaron Wade	...	John Hickman
Tina Huang	...	Brooks
Howard Johnson Jr.	...	Ben
Trevor Bullock	...	Quincy
Rajiv Shah	...	Wayne
Jason Foster	...	Jake
Nick Tagas	...	Ricky
Bryonn Bain	...	Hippie Stranger
Christina McKay	...	Crystal
Charlie Musselwhite	...	Charlie
Les Claypool	...	Preacher
Marissa Ingrasci	...	Sage
Lanie Grainger	...	Poppy
Luis Saguar	...	T.J.
Phillip K. Torretto	...	Beer Belly Redneck

Storyline

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! 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 ...

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Plot Keywords:

pig | forest | emus | marijuana | cult | 

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Taglines:

Get Muddy! Get Bloody! Kill Or Be Killed!

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, drug content, sexuality, nudity and language

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

31 July 2008 (UK)

Also Known As:

Lov na svinju

Filming Locations:

Boonville, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$6,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Pig Hunt Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min 101 min (European Film Market)

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Musician Charlie Musselwhite, who plays general store proprietor Charlie in the film, had had a gig in San Diego at midnight, and drove through the night to get to the shoot for the morning. His dialogue was laid on him at the last second.

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Quotes

Ricky: There's a lot of crazy shit in these woods.

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Crazy Credits

A quote from Geroge Orwell's 'Animal Farm', "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.", just before the end credits.

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Connections

References Gojira (1954)

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Soundtracks

"Boont Woods Boogie"
Written and Performed by Eric Harland

User Reviews

Hillbillies, hippies and a humongous hog.

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.