- Directed by Andrea M. Catinella
- Written by Harry Boxley
- Stars Alexander Butler, Lauren Staerck, Alina Desmond
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArvBZ3Nt9E
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
This isn’t the Piglet from “Pooh: Blood and Honey,” it’s a seperate tale. This Piglet is a big mutated guy wearing a mask and having a big appetite for killing. Reminiscent of Leatherface from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” movies. The music, and accents, required subtitles. Brian was harsher on it than Kevin is, who found it entertaining more than not. But we both agree it didn’t show us enough new to really be interesting. It’s not a standout film, and we thought it was okay at best.
Spoilery Synopsis
A prison van stops in the woods so the driver can pee. “Is it true what they say about him? About the experiment… and his family?” The prisoner was part of a scientific experiment that deformed him. Dr. Bickley turned the scrawny man into a huge killing machine. He then murdered the people in the prison. Naturally, the prisoner gets out of his chains and kills all three of the inept security guards. The masked killer returns to his lair and puts on a pig mask. Credits roll.
A carload of party girls stop on the side of the road so one of them can throw up. Kate is upset about hiding from her insane boyfriend. Two other girls talk about the pig serial-killer who used to operate in this area. A man comes out of the woods and tells them not to go to the camp, as bad things always happen there.
A man in a cowboy hat talks to Piglet about the girls who will be coming to stay at the farm. Piglet can have his pick of one of the girls; the rest will go in the freezer.
The girls arrive at Mr. Hogarth’s farm for the first time in ten years. Kate sees Piglet in the woods, but only for a moment. Mr. Hogarth, the man in the cowboy hat, shows the girls around; he runs the camp.
On the road, three other people stop their car with a breakdown and have to walk the rest of the way to camp through the forest. Courtney is autistic or something and forces them to stop so she can draw. As they wait, the other two stop for sex. Piglet kills the couple, Riley and Bruce, with a big meat hook. Courtney goes looking for them and finds herself in a bear trap until Piglet catches up to her.
Kate gets a scare from a man covered in blood. The police come and pick up the homeless man as Mr. Hogarth assures the girls that animals won’t come into the camp. One of the girls tells the story about the local serial killer they used to call “Piglet,” who fell in love with a girl named Kate.
Judith soon finds Courtney chained up in the barn and hides while Piglet comes in and kills Courtney with a hook before killing Judith as well.
Kate and Susie talk about Spencer, Kate’s crazy ex, who used to follow her around and stalk her. She feels like that again. They both plan to move to Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, Alex and Dianne make out in the hot tub as Mr. Hogarth watches. Hogarth then kills Dianne with an axe.
Alex, Kate, and Susie wonder what happened to all their friends. They talk about making a phone call, but try to drive to town instead; the car has been sabotaged.
Hogarth and Piglet work together to kill Alex with a sledgehammer. Kate thinks Spencer has followed them and is causing all their troubles. Bret, the weird harbinger from the woods, shows up and tells them they need to leave– he offers them gas for their car. They soon see Piglet, and the chase is on. Bret shoots Piglet, and then the girls take his gun and force him to drive them to town. Bret explains the whole thing, but Susie and Kate are skeptical. Hogarth comes outside and blames Bret for keeping a bloodthirsty monster on the grounds.
Piglet shows up and kills Bret while Hogart shoots Susie in the leg. Piglet takes Susie to the barn and chains her up. He then peels her face off with the help of his knife.
Kate runs to the road and flags down a cop, Officer Burke, who handcuffs her and takes her back to Hogarth and Piglet. They all sit around and sing “Happy Birthday to you” to Kate. Instead of a birthday cake, they give her a foot with a candle wedged on top; they’re cannibals. “Piglet’s chosen you. We want you to join the family. He needs a mate. He’ll take the mask off for the honeymoon.”
Kate seduces Officer Burke and attacks him as well as Hogarth. She runs out to Bret’s car as Piglet comes up behind her. She rams him with the car and then drives off. The car stalls out not too much later, and Kate walks to another barn, where she encounters a man in a welding mask. Piglet grabs the man and kills him right away. She steals the man’s car, but crashes it as well.
Kate knocks Piglet down and goes at him with the axe. She pulls off his mask, and he just vanishes.
Brian’s Commentary
This isn’t part of the “Poohniverse,” as this version of Piglet is just a deformed man wearing a pig mask, not a mutant animal at all. The mask, however, looks just like the one in “Blood and Honey,” but it’s a whole different story. The weird family is more closely related to the one in “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” instead.
The music was so overbearing in the beginning that we had to turn on the subtitles to catch all the details of what was being said. The thick accents were strong enough that we would have needed the subtitles anyway.
The acting is really weak, and the accents are atrocious. If you can make it through the pre-credit sequence and keep your sanity, you might like this one. That opening scene was really the worst of it, but it never really gets good.
It’s not awful for a low-budget indie flick, but it doesn’t really do anything we haven’t seen many times before. I never thought I’d say it about a movie, but it’s no “Pooh: Blood and Honey.”
Kevin’s Commentary
I don’t disagree with any points Brian made, but I did find it entertaining enough to keep me interested – a fundamental requirement to get any kind of thumbs up from me. The short run time helps, with minimal time wasted – it does have a lot of gore kills and the effects are realistic.