Piglady

Good movie. Low budget bit of a slow start but once it starts it pops! I like the characters even tho you want to hate them lol. Tony is the favorite. The pigs are pretty scary tromping around in the dark. The cast is peripheral blind but it ads to the frustration you expect in a good horror. I especially like that it was filmed on the property connected to where the murders happened. It's not a true story but there is a hint of truth to it. It's a good movie and worth the watch. I also like the attention to detail and how everything ties back together. It is also beautifully shot in a creepy environment. I'm not disappointed at all! Bought the dvd too!

Me and my friend watched this film together in late 2023, and we still speak about it now, a year later. It is so bad that I can't forget it. The acting is terrible and the plot makes almost no sense. It's the most generic spree/serial killer plot of a horror movie, but amped up with... pigs?

My favourite part of the entire movie, however, is the fact that this town seems to have two police officers, and BOTH of them are wearing sheriff jackets. Every single time I remember this I laugh out loud. One of those horror films that just does not pay attention to the small details, and hopes it can win you over with the gore- which is just... not great either.

The "Piglady" in this film, is based on convicted killer Susan Monica, who killed two of her farm hands on her farm in Oregon...and fed them to her pigs.

In at least one of the cases...she claimed that her pigs had attacked one of the men...and, having disemboweled him...she shot him to ease his suffering.

Though, she also stated that she did not value human life.

And expressed that she liked animals more than she did people.

This film boasts being based on this story.

And is, apparently, shot on the actual farm where the murders took place.

It is, however, of the homemade horror type quality.

And takes the story on which it is based...and turns it into a slasher.

With the Piglady's targets being a group of young Californian adults, who have gone to the cabin of one of their parents for Christmas.

Which just so happens to be on the property next to the Piglady.

Who holds a grudge against them, because the father of the one guy keeps trying to buy her land off her.

Which she is adamant...is not for sale.

Unfortunately, their attempt to spin the slasher angle in with the "based on a true story" bit just doesn't work.

They just don't meld well together...and, as such, it comes off incredibly forced.

Not to mention...the pigs come off as having almost supernatural abilities.

Which requires an absolute suspension of disbelief, to come off anything less than absurd.

There's also way too much of a focus on character development.

With the horror seeming to play second fiddle to it.

There are actually some decent special effects though...in the parts that are more horror oriented.

But the writing is lackluster.

And the acting is pretty mediocre.

So it never really goes beyond being mid.

And even then...it's on the lower side of that spectrum.

It's not overtly horrible, or unwatchable, though.

Just relatively forgettable.

Anyone familiar with Gravitas releases will have come to expect this going in, however.

So it's not really surprising.

But it's quite obvious all the other early reviewers of this film are paid shills.

Because they are rating this way too high.

In my honest opinion...it ranks about a 2 out of 10.

I don't even know where to begin eith this. The movie is based on a man, who pretends to be a woman, named Susan Monica. He killed two farm hands and fed them to pigs. To say this movie is based on those events is a bald face lie.

Nothing the characters do makes a lick of sense. Who has a fire pit at their camp what seems like a 1/2 a mile or more from the cabin (the people at the fire cant hear gun shots or people screaming being butchered with a machete). While they're being picked off one by one, none of them think to run towards their friend, at the fire, who's got a 1911 bolstered. They seemingly run into the dark forest, as the antagonist walks after them, instead of running down the path marked with glow sticks that would lead them to safety. This trained marine with the sidearm gets easily bested by a grossly obese man.

The acting, dialog, and characters are insufferable. What is up with that sheriff's deputy?

I don't mind shalsher flicks, but this was unreal bad.

Also, I counted 10 rounds fired. That 1911 didn't have a 10 round mag.

That was my response at the end of this movie.

"WHAT?!"

I watched this entire 1hr and 39 minutes of crap because there were only a few reviews. The majority were glowingly positive, and yet it had a rating of 2.9. This meant a lot more people needed to leave some actual reviews, as this was obviously not fairly rated "10" alongside the greatest films of all time. So I hope you appreciate that I managed to sit through the whole thing, when honestly my opinion within the first 10 minutes never changed.

Had the filmmakers chosen to attempt a retelling of the true story this movie was "based" upon, it might've been better. However, they chose instead to spend horrendous amounts of time helping us get to know the people who are going to eventually meet the title character...instead of letting us in on the Piglady herself-the one person who is actually interesting. No, of the 1hr and 39 minutes, about 1hr and 25 minutes is spent listening to boring, interminable, dumb conversations between really unlikeable and annoying people.

The acting is below awful, the script puerile and direction seems to be distracted by grandeurs of another movie. The photography is either too dark or too fuzzy and the only positive thing I can say about it to give it a 2 is that the special effects weren't bad for a movie this awful.

And if you actually make it to the end, you'll understand my reaction. Because it's just suddenly...and??? If you love true crime stories, stay far away because there are NO explanations or endings.

Believe the low rating over the "10" reviews. I'm certain there were an awful lot of people too exhausted by disgust to do more than give it a rating and move on with their lives.