With his first scene Mulcahy doesn’t waste any time, and in a tight fast-paced Will hit that heavily through pretty much 80% of the movie before switching to blue filters for the climaxatic resolution. Note the use of red filters through out the opening scene, the Director It’s night and we are getting plenty of pork POVs going down. Night sleeping over at his Grandad’s place due to mom being in Brisbane. The first victim going down here is some two year old kid who is spending a Unlike Spielberg, Mulcahy is well aware of where the horror taboo lines are, he just refuses to have anything to do with them. Would have loved to hear a couple of chords from the Jaws theme going down during a few scenes as a wink to the audience though. But fair crack of the whip, like in Jaws less is more, and Mulcahy nails the creature POV stuff to a tee and builds his Peter Jackson could have knocked it up in his Dad’s shed for about $20. Where exactly they managed to spend quarter of a million on the mechanical boar remains a mystery, Yes, totally bogus and nowhere near as effective as “Bruce” the wonder white pointer. Like Spielberg, Mulcahy keeps his creature off screen for the majority of the movie, which is just as well as when you finally get to see the porker you will be wondering if it has guiding wheels or Speilberg has become increasingly "our town" didactic, while Mulcahy is taking any work he can get. Hey I call them as I see them and for every decent flick Speilberg puts out there's a whole bunch of crap Very least one of them understands the genre he is working in while the other is an overrated hack. If anything Mulcahy does more with his movie than Speilberg could even envisage, but then again the yank is the darling of the Hollywood scene and Mulcahy is just that guy from Down Under. So guess a comparison to big brother is warranted, taking into account Mulcahy is directing with nothing like the budget SpielbergĮnjoyed. That Spielberg flick made some cash so let’s do something similar”. Than that, and it’s pleasing to hear from blokes in the industry prepared to call it how it is rather than drop words like “re-envisioning”, “based on a true story”, or any other Hollywood speak for “hey "Wakey wakey, hands off snakey!!!" - Dicko Bakerįirst up, the makers of Razorback openly admit that not only were they inspired by Spielberg’s classic Jaws but in fact set out to make “Jaws in the Outback”. Naturally we the audience know that they are telling porkies! Kaboom Tish, I'll get my hat and coat. Danny and Dicko have covered their tracks re their involvement with the death of the Journalist, sheįell down a mine shaft according to the dubious duo. I'll get the obvious pun out of the way now rather than letting it hang over the review like a bad smell. If you are thinking that this sounds like Jaws in the Aussie Outback then youĪre right on the money An at times engrossing movie ensues. Arranged against Carl are the pig, a whole bunch of smaller porkers, and also the Baker boys, Danny and Dicko. He receives help from local Sarah Cameron and pig hunter Jake Cullen, the dude who lost Turns out our hero for the evening will be yank Carl Winters, who develops his own obsession with doing in the pig. The journalist's husband heads Down Under to try and discover what happened to, as we learn, his pregnant wife. Okay drinking fosters is a crime against nature so we'll let the pig off the last Not to mention theįosters drinking yokel who watches the side of his house and television being dragged into the bush one evening by the pig. And if you think that’s bad enough an American journalist filming nefarious activities at a dog food plant also gets nabbed by the porcine wonder. Some dude’s two year old son is taken by the porker two years previously and the dude becomes The Aussie outback is being terrorized by an insane, huge, and nasty piggy that doesn’t want to go to market. So did the flick live up to its cult status or was it just another exercise in ocker shenanigans? There’s a whole bunch of Aussie horror flicks I haven’t got around to yet, notably Undead and Wolf Creek, but I wanted to start a pretty intense movie weekend off with something special.ĭon’t ask me why but I had neither previously got around to seeing the cult Aussie creature feature Razorback and since Umbrella Entertaining were re-issuing a $10 package the time seemed right forįighting in the streets boy. This porcine tale of mayhem is simplyĬore Aussie movie making at it's best with the Director taking advantage of his locations, strangely a pretty good script for a creature feature, and wrapping everything up in "fish out of water" newspaper. Nine Hundred Pounds of Marauding Tusk and Muscleĭirector Mulcahy cut his teeth on the outback creature feature Razorback and you can pretty much tell from the get go the dude was born to be directing movies. Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Argue
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