Trying to get by in life, a woman is thrust into a strange mystery when a client presents evidence that a local legend involves half-human, half-pig hybrids terrorizing the community, and she sets out to find them, eventually bringing her into contact with the deadly truth behind it.
This was an intriguing if somewhat flawed genre effort. Among the better aspects to be had here involves the simple and wholly promising storyline that sets this one in motion in quite an attention-grabbing manner. The central setup about the location being quite famous in local circles as the source of rumors detailing the existence of the Pigmen creatures kidnapping and impregnating women to carry their hybrid children, which the rest of the town is aware of but doesn't properly believe, is a great way to get this one started. With the rumors spreading to her about the pig people helping to reinforce the book about the experiences that she's writing, it all helps to come together incredibly well to generate a strong starting point for the action to come. That leads really nicely into the different interactions with the monstrous creature in the farmhouse, where everything comes to a head. Utilizing the idea of the savageness of their attacks to hide their brutal tormenting and sexual exploitation of victims by keeping them in cages, forcing them to wear rags for clothing, and the constant need for the sexual humiliation to take place, these scenes are immensely brutal and graphic in their depictions rather than the actual content of the attack. The whole thing is presented with such a frenzied energy and hallucinatory visual style that it's made all the more potent with the final reveal taken in the end, which offers up the kind of likable factors here that give this a lot to like. There are some big problems to be had with this one. He main issue is a wholly bizarre and confusing final half that makes for one of the most underwhelming and unnecessary left-turn twists that a film didn't need. The revelation about the source of the pig creatures not only makes the whole thing feel far too redundant and turns a lot of the preceding moments into a questionable series of actions, but it also drastically reduces the point of the film, trying to justify such a reveal. That is especially with how it contradicts points or goes through such a drastic amount of rewriting to get that segment to tie into the first half. It also struggles with the same thing the first half dealt with in a disjointed and sluggish pacing, taking far too long to get going, as the dragged-out explanation makes it stutter to a predictable finish. Overall, these all bring it down the most.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.
