The greatest movie ever!

Brilliant and touching

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

From the title of this move, you might suspect that it takes place in Arkansas in the Ozarks. But no, this movie takes place in Australia, and American actor Gregory Harrison plays the lead.The production of this move is not bad. Movie captures the atmosphere of Australian outback pretty well. But as the movie progressed, I started to hate this movie more and more. Why ? because the movie is not much about the razorback, but stupid humans trying to kill each other.It's well known by now, that using a robot animal to play a convincing role in a movie is pretty difficult from experience of director Steven Spielberg's "JAWS". So what happens in these lower budget animal horror flicks is that you hardly ever see the actual creature. And even when it appears, it's a dodgy shot in darkness with small part of animal shown or just the shadow of it is shown moving around.Unfortunately this movie falls right into this category.So there's not much meat to the story, and lot of fillers. Less than 1 minutes, of the actual hog is seen in this movie. Too bad because this movie had pretty good production to it.

One striking shot follows the next in this monster B-movie, and the overall tone of the visuals is beautiful, I think. And there is some thick, intense atmosphere. In those departments it's so stunning that the many flaws can't ruin the film. The acting is OK all in all but there are some moments that make you want to put your head through the next wall. The action scenes and especially the ones with the razorback, a huge boar, are more or less comprehensible in that you get the basic idea of what's going on but all the crucial scenes happen between cuts, so the editing is jumpy, kind of like a TV edit. The worst example is the movie's finale and the destruction of the monster, which after an exhaustingly loud, dark, monotonous battle between man and monster plot-wise also ends on a ridiculous and schmaltzy note and so the film leaves you with a bad aftertaste. But those visuals, man, those visuals... It's kinda like a more extreme 'Alien³'. Worse plot, more stunning visuals. What else could I do but consider this a new B-movie favorite?

From the director of 1986's Highlander and the 1991 sequel The Quickening, Russell Mulcahy brings you a monster revival flick involving a giant killer boar, also known as a "razorback." What we have here is a cleverly executed film, alittle typical considering the time period, but entertaining nonetheless.A young woman by the name of Beth Winters is sent on assignment to film a wildlife documentary in the Australian Outback. The locals don't take too kindly to her nationality while she attempts to conduct her business and two disturbed individuals decide to attack her in a secluded area. Suddenly, they are brought face to face with a large beast out in the wilderness; an overly-sized razorback boar, thought to be a legend among the people. An experienced boar hunter, Jake Cullen, knows the nature of this beast due to his grandson being dragged off into the night by it two years earlier. Now, after the disappearance of his wife Beth, Carl travels to Australia in search of her...and what he finds there is more than he bargained for.There's not much to knitpick here. When I initially read the premise I half-expected the turnout to be lame but it wasn't so bad after all. Films of this nature really aren't my cup of tea but I rated it highly. The acting is solid for what it needs to be and the techniques utilized for the monster sequences were decent. Since this was 1984 one can expect to see animatronics and tricky camera angles to get the point across...I didn't feel that any of the scenes involving the boar were lame or obnoxious. Some of my favorite shots involved dark silhouettes against the bright orange backdrop of the Outback horizon. At one point during the film you can hear a Duran Duran song play over the car radio...clearly an amusing connection due to Malcahy's involvement in several of Duran Duran's music videos early in their career - the most famous being "Hungry Like the Wolf" in 1982.I wouldn't go out and purchase this movie but that doesn't mean I wouldn't recommend it for anyone seeking alittle fun. Razorback doesn't take itself too seriously and there's enough action and excitement to go braindead for 90 minutes. Give this one a shot.

Went to borrow the DVD because the 20 to 1 TV show episode featuring Top 20 Movie Monsters rated the Razorback #11 on the list - beating Jaws (a mere #18) and King Kong (#20!). Bunged the disc in the DVD player expecting a nice horror flick to enjoy on a rainy night - big letdown! The big pig appears only in fleeting moments throughout the film and moves too slowly for a monster hellbent on consuming every human that gets in its path. It wasn't scary enough to send hairs standing on end, the whacko duo Dicko and Benny should've featured in the title role instead (Razorheads?). Even if the production was done on a limited budget, they could've been more realistic in depicting a pig in its natural environment. Also an explanation of how one particular porcine could grow to abnormally large size while the rest of the herd remained within normal proportions is in order.Don't waste money buying the DVD.