A teenaged girl who is abused by her father, murders him. She is committed in a mental hospital because of this but then escapes. She seeks work from a pig farmer. She doesn’t yet know that the farmer has his own secrets and that his pigs have acquired a taste for human flesh.

Well, there’s a lot going on here. I was thinking this film might have been about homicidal, killer pigs when really they’re just background characters.

I really enjoyed this grindhouse gem, with a fair amount of thought being placed in the writing of the two leads and their backstories. I also love that they almost share a telepathy together.

Pigs also moved along at a real gallop of a pace. The young girl’s backstory from birth to mental hospital escape is told in the first three minutes of the film! That’s great going.

I also loved the angel-harp centric soundtrack by Charles Bernstein who would go on to write the soundtrack for A Nightmare on Elm Street.

I read one review of Pigs that said it’s like Repulsion but without the arty pretensions. Which is very accurate actually.

Quirky, left-field and a true one-off, Pigs is well worth checking out.

3.5 out of 5 stars