Boar

It's a Boar that eats people, nothing more, nothing less. A creature feature set in the Australian outback that has late night curiosity viewing written all over it.

Is "Boar" a flawed horror film with quite a few shortcomings? Yes, it most certainly is. Is it possible for a B-movie to offer more outrageously violent & bloody entertainment than "Boar" does? No, absolutely not and that's a guarantee! Sincere apologies, but you won't be reading a 100% objective review from me. I'm incredibly biased and already knew that I was going to love "Boar" long before I sat down to watch the world premiere at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. I have a lot of sympathy for writer/director Chris Sun ever since the unscrupulous "Charlie's Farm", I cherish a tremendous fondness for Australian horror cinema in general, and my favorite sub-genre also just happens to be "oversized animal attack" movies!

With its premise, "Boar" naturally reminds you instantly of Russell Mulcahy's 1984 classic "Razorback", but Chris Sun's film is neither a sequel, a remake or an homage. The plot is incredibly simplistic and straightforward: a small community in the wide Australian outback is beleaguered by a mastodon boar, about the size of a mammoth, and it is killing one helluva lot of people! Sourpusses are likely to slam the script, since it doesn't bother to clarify why the animal is approximately ten times its species normal size, but B-movie fanatics will simply just enjoy the massive amount of bloodshed, the breath-taking rural Aussie filming locations and - of course - the sight of the humongous pig with its filthy tusks and eerie growling. The special effects are not always convincing, especially when the digital pig is spurting or devouring human heads, but the gore is overall fantastic. Last but certainly not least, deep respect for Chris Sun as he managed to gather a dream-cast full of Australian cult legends! "Boar" stars John Jarratt ("Wolf Creek", "Dark Age"), Roger Ward ("Mad Max", "Blood Camp Thatcher") and Steve Bisley (Goose from "Mad Max"). Following their previous collaboration on "Charlie's Farm", former wrestling champion Nathan Jones and horror veteran Bill Moseley also returned to join Chris Sun's cast. "Boar" probably only deserves a solid rating 5 or 6 out of 10, but I'm rewarding it with a big fat 8/10 and hope all Ozploitation fans will seek it out!

This film was everything I could of asked for out of this kind of film. The practical creature effects were amazing and the script was well written and funny the only let down for me was the cgi scenes with the titled beast but was fine on the budget the director had to work with. If the director had a bit more of a budget to have better cgi this would of been 10 stars but it's still a bloody awesome movie well worth a watch seeing a good Aussie monster movie

Loved seeing "Mick Taylor" from Wolf Creek in this movie. Too bad he didn't have a bigger part. I'm tired of watching movies where I actually hope the characters get killed just because they are so stupid. Bennie took the cake in the stupid department! Besides that, he was a jerk and a bully. Not a bad movie though, well worth watching.

A gargantuan, wild hog terrorizes the Aussie outback, mutilating those unlucky enough to cross its path. Unaware of this, a family, including a relatively sedate Nathan Jones, and an incredibly non-threatening Bill Mosely, sets out on an ill-fated picnic.

BOAR is a rare, modern horror film that has an element known as "character development", that could prove shocking to some viewers. In other words, we are allowed to get to know a bit about these people before they encounter danger, or even brutal death. There's even some thoughtful dialogue, and, believe it or not, a moment of poignancy! Fear not, this is still a horror movie after all.

Mosely is in pretty much a cameo role as the dad, but Jones, as Uncle Bernie, gets to show off what his nearly 7' tall frame can do against the monster. The trio of women (Simone Buchanan, Melissa Tkautz, and Christie-Lee Britten) certainly hold their own! It's also great to see a bearded John Jarratt. Even Chris Haywood from the all-time classic, Aussie big pig movie, RAZORBACK, makes an appearance! As for the BOAR itself, as others have said, the practical effects are fine. It's the CGI that drags things down a notch. One wishes there had been either more money, or fewer shots of cartoonish swine. In spite of this, BOAR is recommended for lovers of this sub-genre...