We have seen creature features that have featured killer dogs, cats, birds, sharks, piranhas, alligators and even Zombeavers, but I don’t think we ever saw one with a boar? That is until now. Shudder is exclusively streaming Boar about an oversized pig running wild in the Australian Outback and killing anyone who comes in his path.
Bruce (Bill Moseley) takes his wife, his stepson, his stepdaughter and her boyfriend on vacation in the Outback to relax and get to know each other. They are joined by Uncle Bernie (Nathan Jones) who is almost as big as the killer swine they don’t know is about to ruin their holiday and everyone else’s whose path he comes across.
The indestructible hog, who is the size of a minivan, has no mercy. He chews up his victims and then spits them out. Sometimes he just bites off their heads and swallows the body whole. He is one mean hungry killer. Since he kills everyone he meets, no one knows that he is the monster leaving a bloody path of destructrion wherever he goes. Even if the beast didn’t eat all of those people he sees, who would believe that a porker the size of a tank existed.
He will be able to survive all the attacks on him, until he finally meets his match in Uncle Bernie and his famil. Will this be the end of the monster who is not Kosher or he will he be the ultimate winner in this walkabout?
So many horror movies rely heavily on CGI to make them scary, but they only make creatures features feel more unbelievable than the concept already is. Boar is so well done, you almost believe he is real like some of the movies from the ’70s that used real animals to actually create the effect. Even though you are looking at a mouse the size of a bathroom, you believe it because it looks authentic. That is why I believed Boar and threw out all the bacon in my house. I don’t want him coming after me.
If you like creature features with a lot of awesomely bad kills, then you are going to hog wild for this film. You might just say you’ll be as happy as a pig in mud.
