Pig Hunt

Pig Hunt

Year: 2008

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: James Isaac

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Get muddy, get bloody, kill or be killed. John takes his San Francisco friends and his girlfriend Brooks to his late uncle’s remote ranch for a weekend pig hunt. As they push deeper into the forest, they discover the truth behind the uncle’s death and the legend of The Ripper, a three‑thousand‑pound black boar.

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1

Escape in the forest

A man runs for his life through the trees as something bursts from behind him and drags him away. He screams as the creature begins to eat him, and the camera cuts to a pair of dog tags, hinting at the danger stalking the woods.

Forest
2

Friends head to the uncle's cabin

John Hickman and his girlfriend Brooks invite friends to a weekend near John's uncle's remote cabin. They set up camp after arriving and learn the place was vandalized, with John insisting the nearby rednecks aren’t responsible. Tension grows as they settle into the remote woods.

Uncle's cabin area
3

Tibbs cousins join the hunt

The group meets Jake and Ricky Tibbs, meth-affected cousins who want to join the hog hunt. A long-standing feud between John and Ricky resurfaces, and Ricky shows signs of instability. The others size up the competence of their companions around the camp.

Morning Woods near the cabin
4

Big Wallow: the hunt begins

They lure boars with a piglet call and draw several pigs into the area. One boar injures Wayne, fracturing his kneecap, while Wolfgang chases the escaping hogs and Brooks shoots at one of them. The hunt quickly turns dangerous.

Day Big Wallow clearing
5

Pot discovery and a crossbow flare-up

Ricky calls Jake to inspect a disturbing find: a piglet without armor on its shoulders. They stumble upon marijuana plants growing on John's property, and an argument erupts when John objects to the Tibbses profiting from it. In the ensuing chaos, Ricky is shot, ending a tense standoff.

Day Near the marijuana plants
6

Wayne is wounded and disappears

As they press the retreat, Ben and Quincy try to fashion a stretcher for Wayne. In the confusion, Wayne is attacked by something in the woods and vanishes, with Brooks and John returning to search for him and finding only indications that something took him.

Woodland path
7

Wolfgang is found dead and the Tibbs strike

Ben and Quincy discover Wolfgang's mutilated body, suspected to be the Tibbs clan's work. Jake rushes in to warn his clan, and the Tibbs men press pursuit. Ben kills one pursuer and escapes, but Quincy is knocked from a vehicle and shot in the back, dying on the roadside.

Evening Near the cabin/road
8

The Hippie Stranger offers aid

John and Brooks encounter the Hippie Stranger in the woods, who claims to be looking for an escaped animal and offers help via his commune. He provides cautious shelter and helps them fight off a Tibbs ambush, even as he urges them to contact the police.

Forest and Hippie commune route
9

Ben reaches the commune

Ben arrives at the hippie commune, where women drug him and he is led into a large, muddy pen. He encounters a dying Wayne, who warns that something has eaten him, and an unseen threat closes in behind him as he screams.

Hippie commune, muddy pen
10

The Tibbs are hunted by the hippies

The remaining Tibbs clan members reach the woods around the commune but are stalked and killed by the murderous hippie women. Only one man is left alive, and he is seized by an unknown force. The hippie faction tightens its grip as the group is cornered.

Woods around commune
11

Jake infiltrates the commune and is killed

Jake makes his way into the commune's interior and is confronted by some of the women. He shoots a few of them and is let into John's cell, where he spots the Ripper in the pen. A Hippie Stranger stabs Jake in the eye, and he dies from his wounds as chaos erupts around him.

Hippie commune
12

Brooks and John confront the Ripper

John and Brooks arrive at the commune, only to be forced into separate fates: John is jailed while Brooks is taken to the boar pen. The leader's cult advances toward a dark ritual, and the Ripper, a monstrous hog, stalks the pen.

Final act Hippie commune pen
13

The ritual ends in a gruesome turn

Brooks uses a cattle prod to provoke the Ripper, drawing its attention away from the others. The Ripper eviscerates the Hippie Stranger, revealing the true horror of the ritual. John then kills the Ripper with a shot from his crossbow as he makes an escape.

Finale Hippie commune pen
14

Escape and the feral boy

John and Brooks narrowly escape the boar-filled pen and come face-to-face with the feral boy who lingered in the trees at the film's start. The survivors slip away into the woods, leaving the brutal world behind as the credits roll.

End Forest edge near commune

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