Director: Salvatore Sclafani
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Telling her story to a reporter, a woman tells how she and her boyfriend were forced to go on a trip to the woods with her father, only to stumble upon a psychotic cannibal pig farmer using tourists as the meat for a secret jerky business and tried to escape his clutches.
Review:
This was a decent enough take on the genre. The main aspect that this one comes about is the series of interactions that take place once they get captured and brought to the house. The opening sections about the group going through the trip and being caught in the series of hunting traps aren’t as impactful as it is once they get captured and kept hostage by the hermit, which sets this on a great note involving the struggle to stay alive and try to outwit him so that they can get away all come together with a lot to like. As there’s some fun elements here not just with the usual type of holding hostage sequences where they’re strung up and forced to undergo the treatments necessary for the proper preparation for the jerky he sells, this sets the stage for the brutal stalking scenes involving those who arrive there either purposefully or accidentally, leading to some impressive gore and brutality in the vicious kills that take place.
However, there are some massively disjointed elements at work with how this is structured and set up. Setting this up as a survival story involving how she escaped the clutches of the madman takes a lot of the suspense out of the situation, knowing that she’s gotten away and is telling her story, so that a lot of his traps and different techniques to prepare meat for his business aren’t that impactful or suspenseful. With the suspense taken out of the film, that also causes the film to run into the problem of being so jagged and jarring in its structure, since it keeps going back to the interviews to tell part of the story there rather than keeping the structure back in the past to what happened. The ending twist is also unnecessary, dragging the film out longer than necessary simply for the sake of bringing up a strange twist that comes off with plenty of inconsistencies in how it all comes together, which brings this down even more.
Overview: **/5
A fun if somewhat troublesome slasher effort, there are some worthwhile elements here that manage to keep this from being completely worthless, as the flaws here are pretty damaging. Those with an interest in the style or approach will have the most to like here, while those turned off by the issues here will want to heed caution.
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