Razorback

Director: Russell Mulcahy

1984 / 95min / 35mm

After making his name as a director of suave music video clips—including The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”—Mulcahy made the jump to feature films directing with this baroquely stylized banger about outback wildlife run amok, in which a king-sized wild boar wreaks havoc in the psychopath-filled hills and dales of rural New South Wales. Fans of atomic blast-level backlighting, pedal to the metal tracking shots, humongous animatronic razorbacks, and over-the-top Ozploitation need look no further than here, to the movie that’s sometimes been called “Jaws on Trotters.” More than just a scream, it’s a squeal.