Boar is a 2017 Australian horror film about teens on a hiking trip attempting to survive the onslaught of a huge wild animal with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction.
The movie was written, co-produced and directed by Chris Sun (The Possessed; Charlie’s Farm; Daddy’s Little Girl).
The Ozpix production stars John Jarratt, Simone Buchanan, Melissa Tkautz and Bill Moseley.
Plot:
In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before.
Believed to be nothing more than a myth, a legend brought to life by a drunken local, the beast ventures closer to civilisation, closer to life, and ultimately, closer to death. It’s brutal, it’s bloodthirsty, it’s boar…
Our review:
Suffused with retro Ocker clichés and Carry On-style innuendo, Boar is not exactly a calling card for Aussie culture. Although social satire is the intention, subtlety is absent entirely. And whatever appeal may have been initially engendered by its supposedly down-to-earth characters soon dissipates. Hilariously, everyone is a “Shiela” or a “dingo” in this movie.
The remainder of the movie is a Razorback rehash with attack scenes that are generally too darkly lit to have any impact (even the movie’s posters are too dark!), plus brash bar banter and brawls. Away from the “pub”, hero Bernie (Nathan Jones) is presented as a loveable macho guy with a soft heart. Unfortunately, his miming to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ is perhaps Boar‘s low point. And what’s bemused Bill Moseley – a token Yankee, yet still named Bruce – doing here? Nothing much except to bolster the movie’s appeal stateside.
The plot races ahead like the wild pigs that are barely on show, as if the audience knows what’s coming (clearly they do), and thus no build-up, no tension. There isn’t anything particularly original in Boar and with characters, that we can’t empathise with, there is nothing to draw viewers in. There are many Australian genre movies worth watching, Boar isn’t one of them.
Adrian J Smith, MOVIES & MANIA
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