Rent Pig Killer (2022)

A terrible, incompetently made & atrociously acted film. Total garbage - Pig Killer review by TB

This film defies every metric you could possibly measure it against. It is so badly made, so atrociously scripted & so poorly acted it almost transcends all criticism. The script probably took longer to read than it did to write. It is full of bad editing, sound & production design. But it just keeps on plumbing ever more rancid depths.

For example, there is a moment of jaw-dropping racism by one female character, commenting about another, despite this woman being in a relationship with a mixed-race man... Also, pretty much every woman featured in this film in a prominent way is either a sex worker or treated as nothing more than a sex object.

Other such delights include the casting of an older porn star to play the mother of the protagonist, who at one point has clearly used Sharon Stone's leg crossing from Basic Instinct as horrible inspiration, but forgetting to actually cross her legs; the close-up view of another character removing & cleaning his tracheotomy pipe before inserting it back in with a horrible squelch; and a man raping a woman whilst wearing the chopped-off carcass of a pig's head... There are also more prosthetic penis's in this film than in the entirety of Lars Von Trier's filmography.

And finally, we come to the performances. And it's no stretch to say that the acting here makes The Room look like Citizen Kane. At one point, an actress delivers a dull, turgid monologue, attempting to muster anger but acting more like she's got bad stomach ache. Then, as she storms out, she walks into the rig & the camera visibly shakes. The lead actor, played by Gary Busey's son, appears to have inherited none of the slim pickings of his father's talent, such is his lack of ability. Whether it's attempting to be threatening or trying to turn on the charm, it all seems to be beyond him.

Unfortunately, this film doesn't even fall into "so bad it's good territory," simply because of how horrible it is to watch, both in performance & production. If you want to watch something along those lines, rent The Greasy Strangler. It has laughs, good jokes and just as much liberal featuring of prosthetics...