Blood Pigs Review from Black Lava Entertainment!
Black Lava have given the royal treatment to underground gore god Brian Paulin’s Blood Pigs. They’ve cleaned up the jumpy interlacing errors thus making it easier to focus on enjoying what’s most important — the gory carnage!
Like in true Paulin and Morbid Vision Films fashion we are woven a tale of apocalyptic devastation. The world has gone to shit due to a biochemical war. Those left to survive are forced to take drastic measures for food. To maintain some sort of protein we see survivors literally cutting off chunks of zombies and cooking it to eat.
The first half of Blood Pigs introduces the characters and sets up the story. The second half features an array of unadulterated carnage splashed upon the screen in true Brian Paulin fashion. Highlights include an absolutely bonkers scene of a car grinding up a bunch of heads & bodies underneath its wheels splattering viscera everywhere. Plus, we get this insane looking behemoth monster/monstrosity at the end which is probably one of the most ambitious and coolest Paulin has done on such a large scale.
Blood Pigs tells the story of a few survivors in the desolate environment after a biochemical war as previously mentioned. We meet Jonathon (Richard Caron) who scavenges the wasteland helping whoever he can while hacking and slashing his way through the zombies hungry for his flesh.
Johnathon runs into Rob (Rich George) and the two battle it out with an impressive sword fight. We later get a backstory as to why the two share animosity towards each other. Rob then meets Gary (Joe Olson) and Gary takes Rob back to his safehouse. The two become friends and Rob shares a story about what happened to the group of survivors he once lived with.
It seems Rob lived in a spacious location in a warehouse with a group of likeminded survivors. Things were tranquil at first but then started to turn sour as people in their group got sick and eventually turned into ravenous monsters. This caused a chain reaction which overran the groups living space leaving ppl to survive or become fodder for the rabid infected dead.
Rob explains the story in great detail with all the deaths and the viewer is plunged into the flashback in full gory glory. We witness the group getting infected and systematically dismantling each other anatomically leaving only a select few once the chaos ends.
The second half of the film is an unrelenting gorefest with all the carnage released on screen plus it has a major downbeat ending with no hope in sight. It’s great to see Blood Pigs given a new lease on life through Europe’s premiere label Black Lava Entertainment. Paulin is a down to earth filmmaker who loves his craft and appreciates his supporters. Black Lava is a quality company that treats its customers right so purchasing this remaster of Blood Pigs is a no brainer. Support quality underground filmmakers and labels.
Directed by: Brian Paulin
Written by: Brian Paulin
Produced by: Connie Cicchini, Rip Moore, Brian Paulin, Stacey Paulin, Fabio Soldani
Cinematography by: Brian Paulin
Special Effects by: Brian Paulin
Music: Matt Meserve
Cast: Joe Olson, Rich George, Richard Caron, Deana Joy, Sarah Nicklin, Allie Anderson, Brian Paulin
Year: 2010/2022 (re-release)
Country: USA
Language: English
Colour: Colour
Runtime: 1h 24min
Studio: Morbid Vision Films
Distributor: Black Lava Entertainment