31 Days of Halloween: Pig Girl

[31 Days of Halloween 2015: PIG GIRL.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

*Note: As with last year’s 31 Days of Halloween marathon of horror movie reviews, we’ll be diving deep into the new release section looking for modern horror fare, hoping for the best, but frankly expecting the worst.*

When it comes to micro budget horror films, there are a handful of good ones, a whole ton of unwatchable shit fests, and not much in the middle. PIG GIRL is all of the above. I say this because it’s essentially three movies in one.

Movie #1 gets down to business quickly. There’s a brief recap of the PORKCHOP trilogy of low budget slasher films that precede PIG GIRL –  a guy in a pig mask killed a bunch of people in the woods before being killed himself, and it’s rumored he had a daughter who might be carrying on his deadly ways. Of course it’s no rumor, and of course yet another group of idiots head off into the woods to learn that truth the hard way.

Friday the 13th (February 13th at the CWRU Film Society, Strosacker Auditorium)

[FRIDAY THE 13TH screens Friday February 13th at 7, 9 and 11 p.m. at the CWRU Film Society, Strosacker Auditorium.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

I would like to think that the CWRU Film Society has revived the original FRIDAY THE 13th, from 1980, as a Valentine's Day special. After all, this was the artless potboiler that did more than most in the tidal wave of slasher films, to directly equate having sex with getting pitilessly slaughtered. Works for me.


Or I would like to think that there is a sneakier, more subliminal message directed at campus moviegoers: in this economy, your chances of getting killed by a maniac are better than your chances of getting a job after graduation. Better prepare to slash your budget, he he. Oh, and your University Circle professors thank you for the wasted tuition money that pays their elite salaries. Speaking of horror.