On the hunt for horror, I’ll throw just about anything on the list of things to watch. As a huge fan of Razorback, I must have, at the time, figured “sweet, a giant killer hog!” Makes sense, who doesn’t love a giant hog tearing up people and eating the remains? Late one night I saw a few minutes of this flick on IFC. It was especially bloody and violent, though I didn’t see any hogs to speak of, but not wanting to ruin the experience of watching the film from A to Z, I threw it in my Netflix queue. This flick, which carries the Frightfest banner, follows a group of friends who head out on a, you guessed it, pig hunt. Our crew, led by good guy John Hickman, formerly of the area, are soon joined by some of his old “friends,” a couple of ne-er-do-well hillbillies. The group clashes with each other, with small boars, hippies, rednecks, and eventually, a really big pig.

If you needed a handy guide to the murderous rednecks in the sequel to 2001 Maniacs or some fancy additions to your twisted Magic the Gathering deck, you could do worse than to check out the Virtual Maniac Trading Cards being used to promote Field of Screams. You have to admire an advertising campaign that uses the same concept as the United States government did for terrorists. Which one is your favorite? The sheep-loving, yellow-toothed guy or the cleavage-exposing Asian stereotype? How do you even choose between those choices? What would Robert Englund do?

Robert Fure is tired of lazy cannibals who can’t even bring together enough firewood to roast that succulent leg of lady.