Razorback
Short description
In the Australian outback, a remote community is terrorised by a huge razorback boar that kills without warning. After the animal attacks an isolated farmhouse, a young boy disappears and his grandfather, Jake Cullen, is blamed for the child's death and put on trial. The story then shifts to Beth Winters, an American television journalist who travels to the area to report on the local kangaroo slaughter. She encounters hostility from the residents, and after she visits a cannery where she meets the Baker brothers, she vanishes too. Her husband, Carl, arrives from America to search for her, and with help from a woman named Sarah Cameron he begins to uncover what is happening in the bush.
Russell Mulcahy directed Razorback, his first feature film, ahead of Highlander two years later. Everett De Roche wrote the screenplay, Hal McElroy produced, and the Australian production was made for about six million dollars. Gregory Harrison plays Carl, Arkie Whiteley plays Sarah, and Bill Kerr plays Jake, with Chris Haywood, David Argue and Judy Morris among the credited cast of twenty-one.
On TMDB the film holds a rating of 5.9 out of 10 from 222 votes, suggesting a modest response from viewers. It runs 95 minutes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Special effects artist Bob McCarran created six boars for the film, two of which were built sturdy enough to withstand collisions with cars.
- After the film's release, Steven Spielberg called director Russell Mulcay to ask how he had managed to create some of the special effects shown in the dream sequence (such as the shots of two moons).
- An animatronic boar model was created for $250,000, yet it only appears in the film for a few minutes.
- In Soviet video rentals, the film was released under the title "The Boar with a Razor-Sharp Spine."
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