Review of Razorback (1984) by Adrian Z — 02 Jul 2014

A crazed pig goes on a killing spree through the Australian outback. When an American journalist is killed her husband arrives to hunt the porcine killer down. As you'd expect from a director graduated who from Duran Duran videos, Russell Mulcahy overloads on the strobes, filters and eye-dart edits like they're going out of fashion. The film has a pretty weak script, and meanders around its plot somewhat. It seems unable to decide whether the antagonist of the piece is the titular boar, or the deranged and dangerous locals Benny and Dicko. As the movie progresses, my despise for this movie started to grow more and more. And why is that? Because the majority of the film doesn't even concern the creature, negating it's presence for the main portion of the film, content to let two separate subplots take over the film, mainly about the conflicts between the human characters. Not even quick cutting fails to disguise the fact that the creature doesn't move very much and is a pretty lifeless model. The oddball nightmare style and Dean Semler's startling visuals are effective but the prop pig and under par acting let the film down. Razorback is possibly one of the most overrated and absolutely the worst Australian film I've ever seen.

"Hit The Exits" - [Panned Reaction] These are some of the worst films ever made. These films do everything wrong and do it worse than bad. Audiences should never see this film under any circumstances! (Films that are rated 0.5 or 1 stars).