Reviews

It's clear that Stuttering John Melendez thought this witless, narcissistic mess of a movie was going to make him the next Adam Sandler.

Melendez is built like a fire hydrant and has the charm of road kill, yet in this he is a lady-killing lothario battling with his limitless power to bed any woman he sees. The only sexual challenge he has yet to attain is... a threesome!

That's all you need to know about the 'plot' of this. Shot like a high-budget student film, its only technical merits are that it is audible and in focus.

Co-star Bellamy Young is charming and certainly deserves much better. Comedian and roasting legend Jeff Ross appears to be doing Melendez a favour by appearing in this, a role apparently written for Melendez's former Stern cohort Artie Lange.

Of all the garbage National Lampoon slapped their name on in the '00s it's hard to imagine anything worse than this.

PIG is not a movie you're likely to put on for the family after a big Christmas lunch, but as an exercise in unrelenting brutality it's certainly worth checking out for any fan of extreme cinema.

Even at only a little longer than an hour PIG seems a bit too padded. If this was a 60-minute MASTERS OF HORROR episode it would have easily been the best one, but a certain numbness sets in to the viewer around 45-minutes in after such a protracted exhibition of frenzy, brutality and madness.

Technically the film's much-ballyhooed 'single take' technique is certainly daring. And the performances are committed, if not always entirely successful in some instances.

All-in-all this isn't a perfect film. But Adam Mason and his team have gone and done a left-of-field experiment in grueling extremity. And for a vast majority of its run time it most certainly succeeds.