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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Argue
Directed By: Russell Mulcahy
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300270596
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300270599
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1994-07-07
Running Time: 95
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1984-11-16
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Summary: From Tusk 'til Dawn
Comment: 'Razorback', apart from 'Return of Captain Invincible' and maybe 'Performance', is likely the cultest film ever made. It's credentials are crackling; mad, bad killer pig, desert lunatics, animal rights protesters, camels, abattoirs, negligible special effects, arty direction, and a delicious ideal of senseless cruelty and insensitivity.
''Jaws' in the outback' just about sums it up, but with notable additions. It has two of the bestest, grotesque villains ever portrayed on film. Benny and Dicko work at the extremely unpleasant Petpak Cannery, a big, clanking, kangaroo slaughterhouse, around which, much of 'Razorback's action occurs. They enjoy their work FAR too much, live in a cave underneath the plant and insist on 'mystery bags' for their nutritional essentials.
Into their environment bristles Carl Winters in a borrowed old banger, looking for his missing eco-journalist wife Beth. Benny and Dicko know what happened to her but tell him porkies. He goes 'roo hunting with the rinds and is so enamoured with the proceedings, he vomits on their heads! Yet again; every-one's a critic.
After a WILD trippy walkabout, he begins to realise the ghastly truth - there's a giant pig making salami out of the locals. From there on it's a battle between the (happily vicious!) titular giant gammon and the small band of good apples, loins girded and resolute; Carl, Jake Cullen, a local ham-hammerer who's grandson was smoked by the beast, and research scientist Sarah - (played by lovely, died-MUCH-too-soon Arkie Whitely)- each with a very different point to prove.
Intellectually,(and mercifully) 'Razorback' doesn't exist. Director Russell Mulcahy hogs the kudos for this. He deserves a medallion for relegating the ecology to a side issue, preferring to concentrate on cruel humour and breathtaking colourful cinematography. It's the correct combination. He's transformed an undistinguished script into a stylishly relentless thriller, proving you CAN make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Acting is exceptional, particularly David Argue as streaky Dicko. A squeal-voiced swine who gets off on his white, brothel-creeping trotters whenever there's trouble, and snorty Bill Kerr in the Cullen/Quint role, consumed with vengeance and obsessed with making the ultimate McRib.
You won't be boar-ed for a second with 'Razorback'. It's catalogue of hilarious atrocity will have you gasping one minute and chuckling the next. It's a blaise mixture of blood and gleeful vindictiveness. (apart from an attack on Beth Winters just before she's killed, Benny and Dicko have no motive for their mischief. They simply delight in it. The running over of the injured Cullen's dog as she runs for help is particularly galling!) 'Gamulla' where the whole offal-sodden mess is set, is apparently aborigine for 'guts'. The locals know instinctively it's no truffle. I'm surprised 'Razorback' wasn't chopped by the censors.
I've no doubt the rasher among Amazon reviewers will have herd about 'Razorback' and given it a roasting, but the proof of this spicy black pudding is in the long-term savouring. I was suspicious of films like this at one time, but I'm cured now.
It yells 'cult' from the rooftops. It's flash, loud, has great in-jokes and is reassuringly despondent about the state of the world.
And if any-ones thinking of turning vegetarian it's a useful safe-guard. When you're driving past your local chipolata production unit, and you smell the fear and hear the screams of the terrified innocents awaiting their inevitable appointment with frenzied painful oblivion - think of 'Razorback' and I guarantee you won't feel so sympathetic.
Eat them before they eat you.
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Summary: Classic Australian Film
Comment: This is a classic Australian film and a great value DVD package as its full of extras including a 70 minute 2005 filmed documentary called Jaws on Trotters about the making of the film. It contains interviews with the producer, director, special effects guy (who made the pig), various actors and information on the few who aren't interviewed (unfortunately Arkie Whitely who played the hot research scientist passed away from cancer a few years earlier). What I liked about this documentary was that they were prepared to criticise their own movie and its bellow anticipated success in the marketplace.
There's also the deleted grisly expanded killing scenes which were left out of the film when it first screened back in the 80's. They are sensational. As well, the original trailer is here along with quite a few other trailers of Australian movies of the same era which may be of huge benefit to those not in Australia who may not have otherwise heard of them.
The basic plot of this movie is a giant razorback destroys a farmhouse taking a small boy away in its jaws. His grandfather is charged with his murder but let off due to lack of evidence. No one in the small rural outback town believes the pig exists except a beautiful research scientist who is studying the boars so both of these individuals pretty much live lives of isolation while trying to track down the beast. When an unpopular American journalist goes missing after her rape by Petfood factory workers that she is investigating is interrupted by a large beast her husband arrives from the US to find out what happened to her. He must survive the terror of the rapist brothers who don't want the truth of what they did to come out as well as the hairy bacon one in order to find out what did happen and avenge his wife.
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Summary: An outback Jaws
Comment: A razorback is an especially nasty species of wild pig and this movie is about an unusually large (rhino size ) example of the bred which is running rampant in the Australian outback with predictably bloody results .
It opens with a scene of grizzled outback veteran Jake Cullen -well palyed by Bill Kerr--minding his infant grandchild on his remote homestead when the unseen beast attacks and wounds him ,carrying the child away .He is arrested and put on trial for murder but exonerated and set free.From then on he devotes himself to tracking down the murderous beast .
Then an American journalist (Judy Morris) is despatched to the outback to do a story on the wholesale slaughter of kangaroos in the region ;she falls victim to the razorback .Her husband (Gregory Harrison) rejects the officoial version of her death -namely that she fell down a mine shaft .He joins forces with Cullen and together thay set out to track down the beast
The creature is seen only fleetingly but is quite impressive in the glimpses we do get .The script is pretty routine and the plot a tad over-familiar .It is however well photographed (by Dean Semler)wand makes good use of the outback location especially in a series of striking haze filtered back lit shots .It has style and atmosphere galore and looks good -but like director Russell Mulcahy's better known Highlander - its parts are better than the whole .Individually some scenes are striking but there is no real sense of a developed coherent forward moving narrative
By no means a bad movie it would have benefitted from a tighter script and a more foreceful lead actor than Harrison who is a bit bland .One for the creature feature devotees on the board
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Summary: Another Awful , Horrible Movie From The Shores Of Australia!
Comment: Australians DO seem to have a talent for making AWFUL movies and this one is no exception. It concerns a giant pig in the Australian Wilderness ( which is referred to by Austalians as 'The Outback") This movie doesn't evem make it s a Horror movie although I must say it is pretty horrible.We have the usual body count and the hunt is on for the killer pig. I give this movie 5 stars because I managed to catch up on some much needed sleep while it was on my TV screen.
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Summary: Not quite how I remembered it...
Comment: ...but I probably will buy the DvD when it gets released. I'll make myself short; "Razorback" for its' time is more a one-of-a-kind-movie than it is a classic, if you know what I mean? BUT, it is original, different. And rather interesting, actually. Not many movies have been made about these animals, and just the idea of making a horror-movie called "Razorback" is rather brave. I mean; a giant killer-pig! And at times the movie is a bit scary. All thanks to the fabolous camera-work, the sound and "the Beast" itself.
First time I saw "Razorback" I was 14 years old, and it really facinated me -and I never quite got it out of my mind. I find it strange that it is not yet released on DvD considering all the garbage out on the market today, it is a good movie. And I saw it on tv here the other day, and it was a "reunion" worth waiting for -though not quite the movie I remembered.
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A giant mutant pig terrorizes the Australian countryside.
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