Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Pig (1998, Nico B. & Rozz Williams)

"Pig" is a brooding, gothic experimental "arthouse" flick co-directed by and starring deathrock vocalist Rozz Williams. This film came out about a year after Williams committed suicide and, from the looks of it, this might've been more-or-less a personal "home movie" displaying some of his personal fetishist kinks...

The premise is slim, but it involves a killer who picks up some guy wandering through the desert with a completely bandaged face. The two drive to a secluded, rundown house where the gauze-wrapped dude is subjected to various forms of torture and body modification rituals taken from some evil looking book. The guy has blood (or some kind of dark liquid which was a little hard to identify due to the black-and-white film) funneled into his mouth, the word "pig" carved into his chest, some blood catheterized from his cock, his nipples pierced, etc. Then, there's some weird, surreal shots involving sign language and more gauze wrapping and then the movie wraps up.

I'm not really sure how to rate something like "Pig". It's basically just a series of masochistic acts shown over gloomy, ambient sounds. Nothing all that "shocking" or memorable about it and I guess I'm too unfamiliar with Rozz Williams to really understand any real meaning behind any of it. Still, it's a fairly interesting oddball film.

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