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If that doesn’t say “missed mark” I’m not quite sure what else will. It reminded me of a flash shot we’d see in House of 1000 Corpses. Just the colorization, the lifeless eyes.

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Instead, I think the most horrific shot was the close-up on the butchered pig Tony and Hunter were preparing for a hog roast-and I’ve had to gut and skin deer myself.

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Fully aware of the potential this movie had, and appreciating the minor details, like puncture wounds from a pig’s needle-like teeth in victims and the aftermath of their flesh being eaten to the bone, I think it failed to portray what would and should have been the most terrifying shots of the film. Growing up amongst Western Pennsylvania farmlands, I’ve had my own fair share of warnings when around pigs. Pigs can make some frightening noises, and in reality, although cute and stinky, have literally been known to eat people. While it was a little unnerving to see how the pigs were apparently cornering their victims, slowly drawing closer in each scene, it wasn’t very scary. Unfortunately, that aspect is also where the film lost me. Also, there are a lot of pigs in this movie and I can’t imagine how hard it must have been to capture them on film.

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Not a total stretch, but I can still appreciate the creativity! It’s not often that you get a gruesome slasher nightmare from the basis of a serial killer. This would be chalked up as a sort of revenge plot for Hunter’s dad constantly trying to buy her land. While the stories were never taken seriously back then, it would soon be revealed that not only were the rumors of her serial killing true, preying on junkies who wouldn’t be missed, but that she had a new target: Hunter and his friends. Portrayed as a rather stocky woman whose face we never actually see, Hunter shares with Tony that as kids, they’d grown up hearing spooky stories about the people she’d killed and fed to her pigs-some rumors even hinted at her relationship with the pigs. Just to make the group’s connection with the woman they refer to as “Piglady,” urban legend would claim that she was pretty much a loner. For the most part, Liam Samuel Watkins (Tony), Alicia Karami (Brittany), Karri Davis (Adrianna), and Fair all managed to bring the screenplay to life. Although I wasn’t a huge fan of the film’s awkward and often unnecessarily-forced dialogue, I could appreciate the attempt at creating some underlying drama and secrets and rifts between varying and extreme stereotypes. Similar to some of my pastime favorites, like Cabin in the Woods, Evil Dead, and Cabin Fever, viewers follow two couples and their friends gear up for a weekend at Hunter’s (Fair) dad’s camp in Oregon. For me personally, it felt like going back to the roots of where my love for horror really took off.

I knew the film wouldn’t be a mockumentary (although the intro kind of gave that vibe) or comparable to my traditional horror fixes. For someone who loves true crime, after reading more about the case that inspired the story, paired with the fact that director Adam Ray Fair and co-director Lyon Mitchell filmed the movie on the property adjacent to the crimes, I was eager to sign up for the experience.

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