Do you like pigs? You know, Oink Oink. Well maybe PIG HUNT will do for pigs what STEPHEN KING’S IT did for clowns. Maybe? Well, maybe not, but still. PIG HUNT is a unique film being directed by James Isaac (JASON X, SKINWALKERS). It was written by Robert Mailer Anderson and stars Travis Aaron Wade, Tina Huang, Howard Johnson Jr., Trevor Bullock, Rajiv Shah, Jason Foster, Nick Tagas, Les Claypool, Luis Saguar, and Marissa Ingrasci. Anderson had this to say:
“One of the goals of PIG HUNT is to examine death, and why people kill, so there will be a fair amount of gore,” Anderson tells Fango, “but it isn’t ‘torture porn.’ PIG HUNT is old-school terror, like DELIVERANCE or STRAW DOGS—except, of course,” he notes playfully, “for the ‘Abu Ghraib’ setpiece, and our 3,000-pound wild hog, and the dead emus, and the decapitation, and the gunplay.”
According to the official website, the sypnosis is:
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 punkabilly – fresh, shocking, unforgettable!
Sounds like one big party! Well Fangoria posted a few new stills from the flick, which can be found above and below. So far all I know about the release date is that it’s slated for 2008. You can head over to Fangoria for a lot more inside news on the flick. We’ll keep you updated with whatever news we come across, meanwhile you can check out the official site here. Remember… “Don’t be scared!”