Directed by:
Marc LawrenceScreenplay:
Marc LawrenceCinematography:
Glenn RolandComposer:
Charles BernsteinVOD (1)
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Lynn Hart (Toni Lawrence) is a disturbed young woman who escapes from a mental hospital where she was committed for killing her abusive father who raped her. Stealing a nurse's uniform and car, Lynn ends up in a small California town where she meets and shacks up with Zambrini (Marc Lawrence), an old farmer who runs the local motel and roadside café. Zambrini also owns a group of pigs that he keeps in a pen behind his house who have somehow developed a taste for human flesh. When Lynn begins killing a number of men who remind her of her dead father, Zambrini helps her out by disposing of the bodies to the pigs. Investigating the disappearances, the local sheriff eventually becomes suspicious of Lynn's past and a private investigator, hired by the hospital to find her, slowly close in on Lynn. (88 Films)
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Pigs is a surprisingly good bit of bizarreness from Troma. This exploitation horror flick about a farmer who feeds human corpses to his pigs turns out to be a gripping psychological drama. The girl who lodges in his house in order to hide out and earn extra money at his café carries with her a secret that brings numerous surprises into the story. The B-movie visuals and seeming superficiality of the subject matter uniquely contrast with the unpredictability of the screenplay, in which everything, including the psychological interplay of the characters, makes sense in the end. And the film provides a satisfying, even fully formed view with a pleasant tinge of trash. The film also has a likable bit of value added in the fact that it is an original work (screenplay and directing) by Marc Lawrence, who also embodied and excellently played the main character of the pig farmer Zambrini. And that he cast his own daughter as the girl who takes shelter on his farm. The relationship between their characters in the film – in which she, suffering from childhood trauma and looking for a father figure, and he, an old recluse with whom she finds refuge – is an important part of the story.
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Despite certain positives that can be found in depicting the characters' psychology, Daddy's Deadly Darling is still quite drawn-out for what it offers in terms of plot. A simple premise is stretched into something that doesn't suit the film. The film deserves to be shortened, but I would definitely highlight the unpleasant atmosphere and the successful performances, where the characters manage to have a negative impact on you, which was probably the point.
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