Mutant Horror Boar
Fear of the man-killing wild pig
Great White Sharks. Anacondas. Crocodiles. Wolves. Spiders. Forms of life, potentially and mythically dangerous to humans, who have captured the imagination of film makers. Especially within the horror genre, these are beings who are depicted as growing to or flocking in monstrous proportions, becoming something almost unnatural. They also often have a terrifying intentionality and taste for killing humans.
Wild boars also are a recurring version of this trope in film, and seemingly only ever in B-grade schlock. Mostly, the wild pig is a mutated version of its kind, and individual freak of nature. These exagerated figures build upon pre-existing ideas of the wild boar as ferocious, occasionally predatory, and able to grow to sizes of a 2-300kg.
The greatest horror boar film of them all is highly stylised, almost post-apocalyptic, Australian outback film, Razorback (1984). It is an unhinged, cult classic, although done from an outsider's frightened and negative perspective of the Australian outback.
Below are a compilation of movie stills and posters of the current crop of mutant horror boar movies
Razorback( 1984). The Australian classic
The animatronic head of the wild boar in the film, Razorback, was the only clear glimpse gotten of the pig and only revealed in the climactic end
BOAR. (2017). A terrible Australian movie
Chaw (2009). A South Korean killer boar movie. Also boring
Barney Burnam's Wild Boar (2019) is actually about Mutant Pigmen living in the American peripheries torturing and feeding on unsuspecting people
PIG HUNT (2008). IMDB states - "In the film, a group faces a monstrous wild boar while trying to survive vengeful rednecks and a deranged cult of hot girls."