Razorback (1984)
Country: AUS
Technical: col/scope 95m
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr
Synopsis:
An apparently supernatural boar-like creature terrorizes the outback.
Review:
A sort of Down Under beast of Gévaudan, this stalk-and-munch exploitationer chews up and spits out its movie borrowings from Jaws to White Buffalo to Psycho (heroine eaten off forty minutes in). It is impressively mounted in a video-promo manner that presumably earned the director his Highlander assignment, but remains almost totally detached from the beast, which is only ever glimpsed and whose name is never explained. A pity, since with all its repellent characters and settings (a pet food factory, for one) there is no one else to root for. Gripping enough, nonetheless.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/scope 95m
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr
Synopsis:
An apparently supernatural boar-like creature terrorizes the outback.
Review:
A sort of Down Under beast of Gévaudan, this stalk-and-munch exploitationer chews up and spits out its movie borrowings from Jaws to White Buffalo to Psycho (heroine eaten off forty minutes in). It is impressively mounted in a video-promo manner that presumably earned the director his Highlander assignment, but remains almost totally detached from the beast, which is only ever glimpsed and whose name is never explained. A pity, since with all its repellent characters and settings (a pet food factory, for one) there is no one else to root for. Gripping enough, nonetheless.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/scope 95m
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr
Synopsis:
An apparently supernatural boar-like creature terrorizes the outback.
Review:
A sort of Down Under beast of Gévaudan, this stalk-and-munch exploitationer chews up and spits out its movie borrowings from Jaws to White Buffalo to Psycho (heroine eaten off forty minutes in). It is impressively mounted in a video-promo manner that presumably earned the director his Highlander assignment, but remains almost totally detached from the beast, which is only ever glimpsed and whose name is never explained. A pity, since with all its repellent characters and settings (a pet food factory, for one) there is no one else to root for. Gripping enough, nonetheless.