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Genres:
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Horror /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Russell Mulcahy
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Actors:
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Chris Haywood,
Gregory Harrison,
John Howard,
Bill Kerr,
David Argue,
Arkie Whiteley,
Redmond Phillips,
Judy Morris,
Don Smith,
Mervyn Drake,
Alan Becher,
Peter Schwarz,
Beth Child,
Rick Kennedy,
John Ewart
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Duration:
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91 min.
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Rating:
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(5.6/10)88
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Plot Summary:
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A wild, degraded pig terrorizes the Australian outback. The key schnook is a uncomfortable child who is killed. The child's granddad is brought to trial for killing the child but aquitted. The next victim is an American TV-member of the fourth estate. Her quiet Carl gets there and starts to search for the truth. The local inhabitants won't actually help him, but he is joined by a hunter and a female smallholder to rumble the beast.
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Razorback
The Aussie outback is terrorised by a vicious wild boar in this stylish 1980s horror by Highlander director Russell Mulcahy
Coasting on the coattails of Australia's fertile late 1970s/early 1980s new wave, Russell Mulcahy's feature debut takes an unpromising premise - the outback is terrorised by a very big pig - and weaves out of it a horror movie that sits somewhere between Jaws and Mad Max. Budget restrictions and a faltering plot prevent the result from realising all its grand ambitions but it's an intriguing affair nonetheless, Mulcahy's stylised direction offering nods towards the elemental mythmaking of Nic Roeg's Walkabout and Peter Weir's The Last Wave.
The plot deals with a vicious razorback boar. In the opening scene, i...
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