This film has many titles. Among them are "Pigs" "Daddy's Deadly Darling" and "The Strange Exorcism Of Lynn Hart". It was meant to be a star vehicle for the director, Marc Lawrence's daughter Toni Lawrence (if only she could act!) but turned out to be one of the only movies she ever made. It is filmed in the style of a "Last House on the Left" or "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that grainy style of film making that always gives the viewer that "not so fresh" feeling. An often overlooked cult classic in it's own right "Pigs" is worth a one-time viewing for die hard horror fans but viewers beware the version currently in circulation that is being distributed by Troma is actually a censored version of the film (why anyone would care to bother censoring a film with so much of NOTHING in it is beyond me) it is missing a few key scenes (such as a scene where a victims hand is fed to the pigs) and is disappointingly void of extras (I would LOVE to hear how Marc Lawrence feels about this film nowadays or at least see the theatrical trailer for this sleaze fest).
37 Reviews
Pretty good for a drive-in flick
Sandcooler17 September 2009
This movie is often marketed under the title "Pigs!", but that's actually pretty misleading. Granted, there are in fact some pigs involved in this project, but if you want to see crazed hogs rampaging and eating people and whatnot, look somewhere else. I have no idea where, but definitely somewhere else. Instead, this movie focuses on a strangely attractive young woman who seduces men and then kills them. And then she feeds the victims to a bunch of local pigs, mainly to justify the alternative title. It's a pretty thin plot, but the surprisingly decent acting and the sheer brutality of it all manage to keep the show on the road. Also comes with a really weird lullaby soundtrack that's difficult to get out of your head.
The mystery of the 13th pig.
Fella_shibby18 January 2021
I saw this for the first time recently without reading anything bah it n without watching the trailer. I was hoping for a killer pig movie but got totally disappointed.
This film doesn't have a single scene of a pig attack and even the end scene is just offscreen.
Marc Lawrence (Diamonds Are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun) is the director, producer, writer and actor. He even took his real life daughter as the lead actress and that is why we only get to see her busty cleavage.
Marc is remembered as one of the three black-suited henchmen who tossed Plenty O'Toole (Lana Wood) through a high-rise hotel window into a pool in Diamonds Are Forever. Looking out of the window afterward, Sean Connery as Bond says, "Exceptionally fine shot." A deadpan Lawrence responds, "I didn't know it was a pool down there."
Coming back to this film, it has shades of psychological thrillers, slasher films, exploitation films n creatures gone rogue but the end product is a total failure. The film even has supernatural shades. The acting is atrocious, the editing horrendous, the music n songs totally irrelevant.
Marc is remembered as one of the three black-suited henchmen who tossed Plenty O'Toole (Lana Wood) through a high-rise hotel window into a pool in Diamonds Are Forever. Looking out of the window afterward, Sean Connery as Bond says, "Exceptionally fine shot." A deadpan Lawrence responds, "I didn't know it was a pool down there."
Coming back to this film, it has shades of psychological thrillers, slasher films, exploitation films n creatures gone rogue but the end product is a total failure. The film even has supernatural shades. The acting is atrocious, the editing horrendous, the music n songs totally irrelevant.
"One little girl as deadly as can be."
Vince-519 October 2001
Warning: Spoilers
Possible minor spoilers.
This incredibly odd little picture (which I saw as Pigs) almost defies description. Mark Lawrence made the film as a vehicle for his daughter, Toni, with Jesse Vint appearing as a favor. Toni is Lynn Webster (referred to at the end, for some unexplained reason, as Lynn Hart), whose history of madness and patricide is relayed in less than five minutes. This loopy Linda Lovelace-lookalike then escapes the nut barn in a stolen Volkswagen and nurse's uniform. She ends up at a middle-of-nowhere cafe, working for Zambrini (Marc), who robs graves and feeds the corpses to his bloodthirsty pigs. When our busty, batty heroine is reminded of abusive rapist Daddy, she grabs the nearest sharp object and starts hacking. Zambrini and his pigs cover for her. The sheriff (Vint) mostly stands around looking puzzled.
Pigs is an absolute wonder to behold--jerky editing, leering camerawork, pointless characters, a funky soundtrack ("Somebody's waitin' for you/Somewhere down the road/Keep on drivin'...") that starts and stops of its own accord, an obvious double for Toni at the end...and somehow it all works brilliantly! It's like some bizarre hallucination from the brain of the disturbed heroine. Pigs squeal like rusty vaults being forced open, Lynn go-gos next to the jukebox, old women look scared--doesn't matter why. The acid-trip plot and cheap, over-saturated color give it a kind of creepy-beautiful tone reminiscent of an underground art film, with a perfect atmosphere of backwoods isolation. The Lawrences are terrific, particularly the appealing Toni, and the supporting players are quite convincing. The music makes me wish for a soundtrack LP. If a film ever had Cult Classic stamped all over it, it's this one.
This incredibly odd little picture (which I saw as Pigs) almost defies description. Mark Lawrence made the film as a vehicle for his daughter, Toni, with Jesse Vint appearing as a favor. Toni is Lynn Webster (referred to at the end, for some unexplained reason, as Lynn Hart), whose history of madness and patricide is relayed in less than five minutes. This loopy Linda Lovelace-lookalike then escapes the nut barn in a stolen Volkswagen and nurse's uniform. She ends up at a middle-of-nowhere cafe, working for Zambrini (Marc), who robs graves and feeds the corpses to his bloodthirsty pigs. When our busty, batty heroine is reminded of abusive rapist Daddy, she grabs the nearest sharp object and starts hacking. Zambrini and his pigs cover for her. The sheriff (Vint) mostly stands around looking puzzled.
Pigs is an absolute wonder to behold--jerky editing, leering camerawork, pointless characters, a funky soundtrack ("Somebody's waitin' for you/Somewhere down the road/Keep on drivin'...") that starts and stops of its own accord, an obvious double for Toni at the end...and somehow it all works brilliantly! It's like some bizarre hallucination from the brain of the disturbed heroine. Pigs squeal like rusty vaults being forced open, Lynn go-gos next to the jukebox, old women look scared--doesn't matter why. The acid-trip plot and cheap, over-saturated color give it a kind of creepy-beautiful tone reminiscent of an underground art film, with a perfect atmosphere of backwoods isolation. The Lawrences are terrific, particularly the appealing Toni, and the supporting players are quite convincing. The music makes me wish for a soundtrack LP. If a film ever had Cult Classic stamped all over it, it's this one.
Keep your eyes peeled for pigprints
JohnSeal14 July 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This was the only film edited by Irvin Goodnoff in his surprisingly long career in the movie biz. When you watch Pigs, you''ll understand why ol' Irv never got around to picking up the scissors and glue again. Quite simply, this is one of the most poorly edited films ever made: rife with continuity errors, incredibly sloppy quick cuts, and general ineptitude, Pigs defies almost every rule in the Big Book of Film Grammar. As a result, much of the film plays like an experimental effort with psychedelic overtones, which (depending on your point of view) renders the whole thing either unwatchable or a must-see junk movie classic. I would love to know what inspired screen heavy Marc Lawrence to write, direct, and star in this film, which also features his daughter Toni in the lead role of a woman who escapes from Camarillo State Hospital only to stumble across Farmer Zambrini's swine facility. Zambrini (Lawrence pere) feeds his hogs premium feed--human flesh--but local lawman Dan Cole (Jesse Vint) isn't convinced this is against the law. The film fosters the bizarre notion that the pigs somehow 'become' those they've eaten! Filled with thunderous hog squealing, human screams, groovy music, and lots of fish-eye lens footage, Pigs is never boring--and the acting is, by and large, very good. Ignore Troma's DVD and wait for someone like Code Red or Scorpion to give this film the lavish special edition treatment it clearly deserves!
This little piggy stayed at home and watched a demented drive-in feature
Coventry7 January 2008
Ladies and Gentlemen, the hall of 70's exploitation obscurity proudly presents "Pigs", a movie made by, made for and of course largely revolving on
Pigs! Just in case you're looking for a totally incompetent yet strangely fascinating and one of a kind drive in class-sick, I warmly recommend this movie which Marc Lawrence (supportive cast member of such acclaimed classics as "Key Largo" and "The Asphalt Jungle") wrote, produced, starred in and directed entirely by himself! "Pigs", which is a much easier and equally appropriate title to use instead of the official "Daddy's Deadly Darling", blends two main story lines that are typical 70's exploitation guff (meaning: absurd and utterly tasteless), yet the wholesome feels refreshing and unique. The opening sequences introduce Lynn Webster. She's a beautiful and impressively voluptuous young girl who has just slain her father because he couldn't keep his hands to himself and a certain other body part inside his pants. One minor problem, however, Lynn refuses to accept her daddy is dead and she even escapes from the asylum to search for him. Why she desperately wants to be reunited with the guy who physically abused her is just one of the many weird kinks in the plot that remains unexplained and neglected. I guess it's because she's mentally unstable and those people tend to desire weird things. Anyway, she arrives at a remote countryside diner where funny farmer Zambrini employs her as a waitress. Zambrini has a couple of issues of his own, though. To a corpse he stole from the local morgue he explains how his pigs accidentally developed a taste for human blood. It started when they devoured a drunkard who fell asleep in their barnyard, but now they exclusively crave human flesh. The rest of the film is pure but amusing nonsense, with Lynn gradually losing whatever's left of her sanity and Zambrini desperately collecting corpses to keep his porkers satisfied. Jesse Vint stars as the handsome Sheriff investigating the odd events at Zambrini's farm and, like any other male character, he falls for Lynn's gorgeous rack. "Pigs" guarantees 80 minutes of uncompromising and demented 'Rednecksploitation' fun! Naturally it's a horrible film, complete with amateurish acting performances and dialogs that appear to have been written by the pigs, but trained admirers of cinematic 70's smut won't be able to resist it. The camera-work looks hideous, Marc Lawrence clearly never heard of editing and the make-up effects wouldn't even scare a child. "Pigs" also features a misfit but incredibly catchy theme song called "Somebody's Waiting For You" (misfit songs were almost obligatory in 70's drive-in classics) and the endlessly repeated "La la lalalla la la" tunes. Marc Lawrence donated the role of Lynn to his real-life daughter Toni, presumably to launch her career. It must have been awkward, for the both of them, to shoot all the sequences where she wears a revealing and too tight nightgown. Do I sense incestuous undertones? Sure, why not
Everything goes in the wondrously twisted world of 70's exploitation, right?
I saw this under the title PIGS.
capkronos4 May 2003
Lynn Webster (Toni Lawrence, Marc's real-life daughter) is sent to an asylum for shock therapy after killing her father when he tried to rape her. She escapes, steals a car and ends up in a small farming town where weird truck stop owner Mr. Zambrini (Marc Lawrence) gives her a waitress job for room and board. The relationship ends up working out nicely for both -- Lynn goes on a killing spree after almost getting raped again, while Zambrini covers her ass by hacking up the bodies and feeding them to his flesh-craving pet pigs he keeps pinned up behind the restaurant.
Familiar character actor Marc Lawrence made his directorial debut (and as 'F.A. Foss,' also his screenplay debut) with this very cheap and dark-looking, but fairly well-acted and sometimes creepy, low-budget backwoods horror flick. It laid unreleased for about 12 years, but I've seen worse.
Familiar character actor Marc Lawrence made his directorial debut (and as 'F.A. Foss,' also his screenplay debut) with this very cheap and dark-looking, but fairly well-acted and sometimes creepy, low-budget backwoods horror flick. It laid unreleased for about 12 years, but I've seen worse.
Fun Little Film
mglasson20 June 2003
Good Times! Marc Lawrence makes another memorable character in the old, crotchety Zambrini - an ex-circus performer who supposedly came back from the dead after a tragic high-dive. Well, now he owns and operates a little cafe in the middle of nowheresville and feeds his pigs dead humans after midnight. As luck would have it, his newest employee of the cafe is a runaway psychotic from an insane asylum who likes to cut up men who come on to strong to her. She is really the film's main character and, as it turns out, Daddy's Deadly Darling is actually Marc Lawrence's deadly daughter in real life. Seems that he wanted to jump start his daughter's career so he gave her the lead. Well, unfortunately, she doesn't carry nearly enough quirkiness or depth to bring that character to life, unlike her father, who is a real gem to watch.
As a director, Mr. Lawrence had some good ideas to make some creepy, uneasy scenes to watch, but the version I watched (called PIGS) was very choppy and sloppy from an editing standpoint and the camera seems to enjoy shooting things in pitch black darkness. That's low-budget for you, but there's still something charming about this otherwise standard '70s exploitation fare. And any movie that has Marc Lawrence in it is, by default, going to have something going for it.
As a director, Mr. Lawrence had some good ideas to make some creepy, uneasy scenes to watch, but the version I watched (called PIGS) was very choppy and sloppy from an editing standpoint and the camera seems to enjoy shooting things in pitch black darkness. That's low-budget for you, but there's still something charming about this otherwise standard '70s exploitation fare. And any movie that has Marc Lawrence in it is, by default, going to have something going for it.
Just plain strange
dbborroughs2 September 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Young woman who was committed to a mental institution after killing her father when he tried to rape her, breaks free and ends up in a small town where she takes up with an older farmer who has pigs that like to eat human flesh. Lurid, at time uncomfortably so, film about the weird things that weird people do. I'm not sure what to think about the film. It's a strange little film that seems to be strange for strange's sake. I was watching the film and thought a good amount of the film had run only to find that it had only been about 30 minutes. Its creepy because of the odd people involved. What do I think of it? Its okay. A bit odder than I wanted for the late night viewing. I'm curious why this was paired with the Rock Hudson Embryo on the DVD I had since other than being horror films they have little in common. Going from one to the other made for a weird segue. Worth a look for anyone who wants to see off beat horror films, anyone else should probably look elsewhere
Truly bizarre.
Cadaver_20 March 1999
Toni Lawrence stars as a psychotic young woman who kills her father after he rapes her.
This film is pretty bad; many scenes just don't make sense and some of them seem to come out of nowhere. On the plus side, a lot of the dopey characters are fun to watch (especially Zambrini), and the movie has a bizarre, dreamy (and sometimes nightmarish) quality throughout. The scene where Toni Lawrence hears loud pig squeals and then runs screaming through a field for what seems like an eternity is probably the best example of the weird, out-of-nowhere sequences that continuously crop up. Unprofessional filmaking at its best!
This film is pretty bad; many scenes just don't make sense and some of them seem to come out of nowhere. On the plus side, a lot of the dopey characters are fun to watch (especially Zambrini), and the movie has a bizarre, dreamy (and sometimes nightmarish) quality throughout. The scene where Toni Lawrence hears loud pig squeals and then runs screaming through a field for what seems like an eternity is probably the best example of the weird, out-of-nowhere sequences that continuously crop up. Unprofessional filmaking at its best!
Time to pig out
Chase_Witherspoon29 April 2011
Previously mistreated schizophrenic and former psych ward patient (Toni Lawrence) does a circuit breaker after an attempted rape by her less than gallant suitor, turning into an avenging angel, luring unsuspecting men to sudden death, and feeding their remains to the ravenous pigs of her employer, the shady Zambrini (Marc Lawrence). Local sheriff (Vint) begins to suspect she may not be the perennial victim she appears, while her surrogate protector (Lawrence, at his unhinged best) is abetting her crimes, exploiting her psychopathic capabilities (and keeping his pigs well nourished).
The rural setting and bluegrass soundtrack creates some semblance of hysteria, and the supporting cast features some capable, recognisable faces, but the story meanders aimlessly with little punctuation or scene establishment; just a series of unprovoked retributions followed by macabre squeals, as porky and his swine friends poke their snouts into the entrails of hapless victims. It's a paranoid malaise in which the two leads share a co-dependent dementia, each servicing a twisted and morbid lust, the pigs profiting from the residue.
While Marc Lawrence can always depict a perverted psychopath, his daughter Toni is a little less convincing, requiring the assistance of that ubiquitous child singing that seems to signify repressed infantile abuse. Jesse Vint, the dependable (and throughout his career, perpetual) country law enforcer is appropriately concerned, and delivers a relaxed, natural performance that almost resurrects this film from the bowels of c-grade cinema; almost. The two dotty neighbours (Ross & Korn) are amusing, suspecting that Zambrini's hogs may be porking out on more than grain feed, even suggesting that he's a cannibal (given that he eats the pigs, ipso facto).
The shrill squeals of the ravenous hogs that echo throughout the film are harrowing, and the ambiance is uncomfortable in the same way that made "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" such an ordeal. Script is fine as is the cinematography and acting, but there's just not enough depth to the storyline to make it the minor cult classic it could have become.
The rural setting and bluegrass soundtrack creates some semblance of hysteria, and the supporting cast features some capable, recognisable faces, but the story meanders aimlessly with little punctuation or scene establishment; just a series of unprovoked retributions followed by macabre squeals, as porky and his swine friends poke their snouts into the entrails of hapless victims. It's a paranoid malaise in which the two leads share a co-dependent dementia, each servicing a twisted and morbid lust, the pigs profiting from the residue.
While Marc Lawrence can always depict a perverted psychopath, his daughter Toni is a little less convincing, requiring the assistance of that ubiquitous child singing that seems to signify repressed infantile abuse. Jesse Vint, the dependable (and throughout his career, perpetual) country law enforcer is appropriately concerned, and delivers a relaxed, natural performance that almost resurrects this film from the bowels of c-grade cinema; almost. The two dotty neighbours (Ross & Korn) are amusing, suspecting that Zambrini's hogs may be porking out on more than grain feed, even suggesting that he's a cannibal (given that he eats the pigs, ipso facto).
The shrill squeals of the ravenous hogs that echo throughout the film are harrowing, and the ambiance is uncomfortable in the same way that made "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" such an ordeal. Script is fine as is the cinematography and acting, but there's just not enough depth to the storyline to make it the minor cult classic it could have become.
Tell me, Papa Bear, what do you see...
Hey_Sweden19 May 2016
Produced & directed by legendary character actor Marc Lawrence - known for his many gangster roles - the somewhat obscure curiosity "Daddy's Deadly Darling" (a.k.a. "Pigs" and "The 13th Pig") is nothing if not interesting. It's actually kind of appealing in its warped way, largely because it's just so sincere. The dialogue (screenplay by Mr. Lawrence, billed as "F.A. Foss") isn't always the greatest, but it's delivered with as much gravitas as the cast can muster. It's well shot by Glenn Roland and features a haunting refrain and score by the consistently reliable Charles Bernstein ("A Nightmare on Elm Street" '84, "Cujo").
This is largely a vehicle for Marcs' daughter Toni, a pretty and leggy young woman who stars as Lynn, a mystery lady running from something who arrives in a small California community. She takes a job as a waitress in a local cafe, working for a man named Zambrini (Mr. Lawrence), an elderly man who lived through a devastating accident when he worked for a circus. On Zambrinis' property are a dozen pigs, and it is rumored by the locals that these pigs got used to the taste of human flesh long ago, and that Zambrini will resort to murder of drifters in order to keep these pigs fed.
Ultimately, the developments in Lawrences' story aren't all that surprising, but the presentation is just offbeat and atmospheric enough to make this an intriguing viewing. Ms. Lawrence does a decent job as the disturbed Lynn, and her dad is likable (for a change) as Zambrini takes a paternalistic care towards his new employee. '70s drive-in favorite Jesse Vint is fine as the local sheriff, and there are other solid contributions by Jim Antonio, Catherine Ross, Paul Hickey, Walter Barnes, and Erik Holland.
It's commendable that boutique labels such as Vinegar Syndrome, which released this one on DVD & Blu-ray this year, are doing such a fine job of resurrecting little known cult / exploitation titles like this and giving them such impressive presentations.
Eight out of 10.
This is largely a vehicle for Marcs' daughter Toni, a pretty and leggy young woman who stars as Lynn, a mystery lady running from something who arrives in a small California community. She takes a job as a waitress in a local cafe, working for a man named Zambrini (Mr. Lawrence), an elderly man who lived through a devastating accident when he worked for a circus. On Zambrinis' property are a dozen pigs, and it is rumored by the locals that these pigs got used to the taste of human flesh long ago, and that Zambrini will resort to murder of drifters in order to keep these pigs fed.
Ultimately, the developments in Lawrences' story aren't all that surprising, but the presentation is just offbeat and atmospheric enough to make this an intriguing viewing. Ms. Lawrence does a decent job as the disturbed Lynn, and her dad is likable (for a change) as Zambrini takes a paternalistic care towards his new employee. '70s drive-in favorite Jesse Vint is fine as the local sheriff, and there are other solid contributions by Jim Antonio, Catherine Ross, Paul Hickey, Walter Barnes, and Erik Holland.
It's commendable that boutique labels such as Vinegar Syndrome, which released this one on DVD & Blu-ray this year, are doing such a fine job of resurrecting little known cult / exploitation titles like this and giving them such impressive presentations.
Eight out of 10.
Swill keep you entertained. You won't be boared.
BA_Harrison12 July 2018
Allegedly, one of the best ways to get rid of a human body is to feed it to pigs: they eat everything, including the bones. In Daddy's Deadly Darling, a dozen porkers have been raised with a taste for human flesh by their owner, ex-circus performer Zambrini (Marc Lawrence). When Zambrini hires a mysterious young woman, Lynn (played by Lawrence's daughter Toni), as a waitress in his cafe, he finds an unlikely source of dead bodies for his piggies, for his new employee is actually an escaped patient from an asylum who kills men that remind her of her abusive father.
Written and directed by Zambrini himself, actor Marc Lawrence, Daddy's Deadly Darling (AKA Pigs) was intended as a vehicle for his daughter Toni, but failed to launch a successful film career for the actress, who languished in TV land thereafter. Perhaps Marc should have chosen something a little less tawdry for his daughter's debut, since this cheap drive-in horror has all the visual appeal of a grimy exploitation flick and, like a hog, wallows in the unsavoury - mental illness, abusive sex, murder and mutilation.
Of course, for fans of tawdry 70s horror, these elements only make the film all the more desirable. Pigs might not be a grindhouse classic, being a little light on the gore and nudity (Toni has a cracking body, but with dad calling the shots, she doesn't go any further than her underwear), but its macabre themes and offbeat execution still make it a treat for those who enjoy quirky 70s oddities. The murders are quite vicious in tone, Lynn slicing off one man's todger (not too graphic... we see blood seeping through bedsheets) and repeatedly stabbing a couple more, although my favourite scene has to be the deranged girl on the phone talking to her imaginary father, a tear rolling down her cheek, Toni Lawrence proving that she's not as bad an actress as her subsequent career path suggests.
6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for the final 'WTF?' twist in the tale, in which it appears as though Lynn has turned into a pig.
Written and directed by Zambrini himself, actor Marc Lawrence, Daddy's Deadly Darling (AKA Pigs) was intended as a vehicle for his daughter Toni, but failed to launch a successful film career for the actress, who languished in TV land thereafter. Perhaps Marc should have chosen something a little less tawdry for his daughter's debut, since this cheap drive-in horror has all the visual appeal of a grimy exploitation flick and, like a hog, wallows in the unsavoury - mental illness, abusive sex, murder and mutilation.
Of course, for fans of tawdry 70s horror, these elements only make the film all the more desirable. Pigs might not be a grindhouse classic, being a little light on the gore and nudity (Toni has a cracking body, but with dad calling the shots, she doesn't go any further than her underwear), but its macabre themes and offbeat execution still make it a treat for those who enjoy quirky 70s oddities. The murders are quite vicious in tone, Lynn slicing off one man's todger (not too graphic... we see blood seeping through bedsheets) and repeatedly stabbing a couple more, although my favourite scene has to be the deranged girl on the phone talking to her imaginary father, a tear rolling down her cheek, Toni Lawrence proving that she's not as bad an actress as her subsequent career path suggests.
6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for the final 'WTF?' twist in the tale, in which it appears as though Lynn has turned into a pig.
Bizare (may contain spoilers)
lthseldy113 October 2001
Warning: Spoilers
This movie started out interesting. Kinda like "Chainsaw Massacure" with it's erieness of the way the characters played their parts and the way it made it looked like everyday life on the farm with a man and his pigs. Then it made a turn when the farmer tried to make the pigs eat a dead man. This dead man looked all too real and his makeup was terrible. Then another switch when an escape mental patient dicides to take a drive and ends up at the mans farm. Then the whole theme about the man feeding dead people to the pigs changes to the lady living at the farm and going phyco. Now whos the crazy one? The man or the lady? Thats when the film lost my intrest, it's all too strange how an old strange man that lets his pigs out at night squeeling to the neighbors has a young pretty lady hiding out in his barn. this movie has one too many flaws and twists.
Somebody's Waiting for You
BaronBl00d29 July 2001
Lynn has a problem. Her father abused her, raped her, and beat her. Lynn killed her father, was put in an asylum, and still believes her father to be alive. Lynn escapes from asylum and heads on the highway to get away. Thus is the first five minutes or so of Daddy's Deadly Darling(Pigs was the title of video I saw). Then comes on one of the best and most ridiculous songs for a horror movie I've seen in a long time, "Somebody's waiting for you." I have to admit it is a pretty catchy tune. The tune plays while Lynn drives away from her troubles till she comes to a small cafe in the middle of nowhere that has a position for employment open. She secures her job here as a waitress and soon creates a bond with the cafe owner. His name is Zambrini and he has a bunch of human flesh-eating hogs in the back. Well, the story really gets bizarre here when we see Zambrini feed a freshly dug corpse to his livestock. Lynn too seems to not haven gotten over her killing ways completely and the two work together going hog wild over their work. This film is actually pretty good. I mean it is not a a good movie, but it is a whole lot better than I expected and I think will exceed many of your expectations. Marc Lawrence wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this film. His daughter Toni plays Lynn. Lawrence is able to create a very eerie feel to the film despite the total lack of logic that exists in the script. Some of the scenes are dream-like and Lynn's nightmare scene is very powerful. Lawrence also does a fine job acting in his professional low-key style. His daughter isn't too bad either and let's just say she sure knows how to fill out a nightgown. The deaths are not particularly plentiful or gruesome. The rest of the acting is adequate with a couple of old ladies doing very well as neighbors complaining about the pigs next door. Watch out for video misrepresentation: one of the older women's names is Katherine Ross(she starred in one movie...this one!) but is given top billing on many videos to try and make you think this is the other Katherine Ross(The Graduate and The Legacy). All in all a better than expected cinematic experience.
Dumb, occasionally disturbing psychological horror
Leofwine_draca9 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Mainstream character actor Marc Lawrence found himself blacklisted during the '50s and was forced to flee to Europe for a decade. On his return, he found himself producing and directing all kinds of low budget fare including PIGS, his only horror movie. This ultra-bizarre tale was made on a shoestring budget and pairs not one but two psychopathic characters in a very slow moving tale of murder and madness that's pretty predictable. Bizarrely the film fell foul of British censors although I don't really see why. The gore effects that pop up throughout the movie are shoddy and unrealistic with severed body parts oozing bright-red fake blood, although the cockroach running through the grue is pretty artistic and original.
Beauty Toni Lawrence (daughter of the director) stars as Lynn, a girl who starts off getting raped by her dad. She murders him in self defence and is carted off to an insane asylum, escaping about five minutes later far too easily. Lawrence goes to live in the country, where she meets would-be suitors and inevitably ends up butchering them when they try to have sex with her or alternatively when she's reminded of her father. The film tries to get inside Lynn's mind and explore her disturbed character, so throughout we're subjected to cheesy childish rhymes and lots of disturbing squealing from the filthy pigs which send her insane. Lawrence isn't bad at all as the lead and is pleasing on the eye to boot.
Her new housemate is crazy old Zambrini, played with sleazy relish by the director himself in an excellent little performance. Zambrini goes out grave robbing at night, finding corpses to feed to his beloved pigs. The pigs of the title are actually pretty disturbing, especially when they run around in the dark terrorising people, and the exploitation angle is played for all its worth. Unfortunately the rest of the characters are a bunch of stock clichés, like the dumb sheriff or the asylum guy, and the acting apart from the two leads is appalling. Generally, PIGS is a difficult film to sit through due to the snail-pace story and the poor production values. It's one of those films where everything happens in the dark and you end up with eye strain through trying to watch it. Irritating music and a stupid twist ending adds to the overall effect but PIGS not without charm; it manages to be disturbing and dumb in equal measure whilst the loony tag-team of the central pairing is enjoyable to watch.
Beauty Toni Lawrence (daughter of the director) stars as Lynn, a girl who starts off getting raped by her dad. She murders him in self defence and is carted off to an insane asylum, escaping about five minutes later far too easily. Lawrence goes to live in the country, where she meets would-be suitors and inevitably ends up butchering them when they try to have sex with her or alternatively when she's reminded of her father. The film tries to get inside Lynn's mind and explore her disturbed character, so throughout we're subjected to cheesy childish rhymes and lots of disturbing squealing from the filthy pigs which send her insane. Lawrence isn't bad at all as the lead and is pleasing on the eye to boot.
Her new housemate is crazy old Zambrini, played with sleazy relish by the director himself in an excellent little performance. Zambrini goes out grave robbing at night, finding corpses to feed to his beloved pigs. The pigs of the title are actually pretty disturbing, especially when they run around in the dark terrorising people, and the exploitation angle is played for all its worth. Unfortunately the rest of the characters are a bunch of stock clichés, like the dumb sheriff or the asylum guy, and the acting apart from the two leads is appalling. Generally, PIGS is a difficult film to sit through due to the snail-pace story and the poor production values. It's one of those films where everything happens in the dark and you end up with eye strain through trying to watch it. Irritating music and a stupid twist ending adds to the overall effect but PIGS not without charm; it manages to be disturbing and dumb in equal measure whilst the loony tag-team of the central pairing is enjoyable to watch.
Don't even read this. Just find something more worthwhile, like Werewolves On Wheels
Tromafreak23 September 2010
Yet another Troma acquisition which was clearly meant for Something Weird Video. Pigs, aka, Daddy's Deadly Darlings is one of about a thousand inept, no-budget rural Horrors's from the same era. Few of which are not even half as inept as this one. Directed by Marc Lawrence, and starring daughter, Toni Lawrence, as a crazy person (Lynn) on the run after stabbing her pa to death, after a raping. This chick knows how to disappear, as she couldn't have found a more empty nothing of a town if she tried. Lynn finds work and a place to chill with local crazy person, Zambrini, a pig farmer. The fact that Lynn starts to kill people normally might not go over too well with the old man, but his extremely noisy pigs only happen to eat human flesh, so, he's actually glad to have her around. It's just a win-win situation. On the back of the DVD case, it says Pigs has paved the way for stuff like Last House On The Left, and The Hills Have Eyes, and well, it also refers to Pigs as a cult classic. Sorry, guys, but I wouldn't even call that an exaggeration. This is a terrible, dull pile of garbage and to be honest, I'm having a hard time thinking of stuff to say about it. Although, the fact that Pigs was clearly edited by someone who is legally blind, always makes me laugh. That really is the best part. Seeing pieces of scenes repeat themselves is rare, even in the world of B-cinema. So, Pigs definitely deserves extra points for that. Other than that, not really any gore to speak of (unless I missed it), and no witty one-liners to make you chuckle, and well, not really much of anything but terrible lighting, irritating squeals, and a keen little song which sorta reflects the premise. Not a good movie. Hell, not even a good B-movie, but if you like 'em bad, then you're in for a good time. 5/10
"Deadly" bad....
Mister-67 August 2001
This movie is about as simple as it gets. Basic, simplistic: the cinematic equivalent of a pair of white socks.
"Daddy's Deadly Darling" (or "Pigs", as I know it) deals with a psychotic young woman who escapes the asylum and works at a restaurant where the owner keeps man-eating pigs in his back yard and feeds people to them on occasion. This isn't a movie plot: it's a bad (like early '80s SNL bad) comedy skit in search of laughs.
Sound scary? Moody, at best. Well-written? Like a Pauly Shore movie (and only HALF as entertaining). Acting? WHAT acting?
Is there anything at all about this movie I can recommend? Well, you can buy the tape and record a couple of episodes of "Friends" on it. THEN you'd have something scary on tape.
No stars. Nothing. I hate this movie and you should too, if you love real horror movies.
Oink-oink, indeed.
"Daddy's Deadly Darling" (or "Pigs", as I know it) deals with a psychotic young woman who escapes the asylum and works at a restaurant where the owner keeps man-eating pigs in his back yard and feeds people to them on occasion. This isn't a movie plot: it's a bad (like early '80s SNL bad) comedy skit in search of laughs.
Sound scary? Moody, at best. Well-written? Like a Pauly Shore movie (and only HALF as entertaining). Acting? WHAT acting?
Is there anything at all about this movie I can recommend? Well, you can buy the tape and record a couple of episodes of "Friends" on it. THEN you'd have something scary on tape.
No stars. Nothing. I hate this movie and you should too, if you love real horror movies.
Oink-oink, indeed.
Sub-par second tier '70's horror
pmtelefon20 January 2024
This movie has been released under an incredible fourteen different titles. The title under which I saw this movie was "The 13th Pig". It doesn't really matter what the title is, it's not a very good movie. During the early 1970's southern/rural drive-in movies were popular. I'm guessing most were probably on par with "The 13th Pig". Writer/direct/producer/star Marc Lawrence does a passable job overall, I guess. Lawrence's daughter, Toni, isn't much of an actress but she does shine in that white outfit. (I actually have Toni's autograph) The rest of the cast is fine. "The 13th Pig" moves along pretty well and has a decent ending, I guess, but the overall experience is a bit underwhelming.
Fun For All The Family
saint_brett29 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Movie starts at a rate of knots as the worlds sexiest granny witnesses Adrian from 'Rocky' stab her father then makes the front page newspaper in world record time and committed in under 6 hours. Trial by media, man.
Groovy music from a Blue Oyster Cult cover band employ rubber band sound effects 'n all letting us know we're one day advanced from the 60s and moving to more modern times and jives.
What looks like either Ed Harris or Tommy Lee Jones with a little John Saxon on the side converses with a dead man who's turned from beige into um, a blue oyster cult member color.
Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon prepares the corpse for supper.
Meanwhile Adrian only spent what, a day in the asylum resort before released on a day care program to integrate back into society after stabbing her father only a short 30 hours ago.
The hybrid Harris-Jones Saxon farmer and Adrian soon get acquainted and she's handed a waitressing job with no qualifications, references or skills.
So, this is what Adrian did before moving to Kensington, PA and becoming a pet shop assistant?
Adrian goes undercover as Lynn in this movie.
She's obviously working cash in hand to avoid the IRS not to mention she drives a stolen car.
Working on a farm in a shoebox diner the surrounds look more Texas than LA.
Adrian's unaware that the only thing on the menu is her fellow man that's been preserved and sliced in sandwich-size pieces.
With only one customer frequenting the store they soon go out on a date which turns sour.
He's soon replaced by the town sheriff who wouldn't be out of place in the Lone Star state.
I haven't been concentrating on the movie for the past 10 minutes as my mind's elsewhere trying to think where I've seen this hybrid Zambrini farmer fella from. I think it's Old Terry from 'Back to the future 2' who says, "I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season and place some money on the Cubbies." He looks familiar. I've seen him in something else but I can't put my finger on what or where.
Adrian brings her first date home to exact revenge on his unwanted advances and does a little 'I Spit on Your Grave' on him. You know the bathtub scene?
Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon makes a pact with Adrian and helps cover up her crime scene via the pig disposal garbage unit. Or pig's plural.
I'm not gonna let this pass up, but who's chief in charge of editing responsible for this movie? What's with all the double takes looped that have been left included? It's confusing.
I love how confronting Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon is when questioned. He's got an answer for everything and even answers a question with a question. Correct me if I'm wrong but he's got an east coast accent, right? So he's not the only one running from Adrian's neck of the woods. But how'd he wind up over here in LA?
He takes a midnight beating when three locals trespass and snoop on his property in search of missing loved ones as the noose is starting to tighten on his charade. As if an old war horse like this wouldn't be packing.
Out of character, Adrian breaks it down one working morning with unethical dance moves only accepted in the late 60s. Bit early in the morning for party time, isn't it? She must have popped some Quaaludes with her coffee, or something.
A city official from Philly tracks Adrian down with intentions of dragging her back to the asylum but I wouldn't like to be standing in his shoes. Adrian goes full-blown Norman Bates and shower scenes the city official in pretty straight forward circumstances.
With the murders piling up all parties start to lose composure. A vigilante posse forms and are on the trail of the suspicious activity.
And I'm beginning to wonder who's gonna kill who at the end between Adrian and Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon. And there you go, I read this movie like a book, Adrian just planted a carving knife into Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon's back and fed him to the swine. Back stabber!
Adrian fakes her own death and picks up John Voight - I thought it was David Bowie when he was thumbing a ride.
Voight informs Adrian that he's well endowed in size and too much to handle but with her expertise I bet his body showed up somewhere between LA and PA along the line.
I'm curious to know if Alan Ormsby was paying to attention to this movie as I'm detecting hints of 'Deranged' about this at times only 'Deranged' is a far superior movie.
Groovy music from a Blue Oyster Cult cover band employ rubber band sound effects 'n all letting us know we're one day advanced from the 60s and moving to more modern times and jives.
What looks like either Ed Harris or Tommy Lee Jones with a little John Saxon on the side converses with a dead man who's turned from beige into um, a blue oyster cult member color.
Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon prepares the corpse for supper.
Meanwhile Adrian only spent what, a day in the asylum resort before released on a day care program to integrate back into society after stabbing her father only a short 30 hours ago.
The hybrid Harris-Jones Saxon farmer and Adrian soon get acquainted and she's handed a waitressing job with no qualifications, references or skills.
So, this is what Adrian did before moving to Kensington, PA and becoming a pet shop assistant?
Adrian goes undercover as Lynn in this movie.
She's obviously working cash in hand to avoid the IRS not to mention she drives a stolen car.
Working on a farm in a shoebox diner the surrounds look more Texas than LA.
Adrian's unaware that the only thing on the menu is her fellow man that's been preserved and sliced in sandwich-size pieces.
With only one customer frequenting the store they soon go out on a date which turns sour.
He's soon replaced by the town sheriff who wouldn't be out of place in the Lone Star state.
I haven't been concentrating on the movie for the past 10 minutes as my mind's elsewhere trying to think where I've seen this hybrid Zambrini farmer fella from. I think it's Old Terry from 'Back to the future 2' who says, "I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season and place some money on the Cubbies." He looks familiar. I've seen him in something else but I can't put my finger on what or where.
Adrian brings her first date home to exact revenge on his unwanted advances and does a little 'I Spit on Your Grave' on him. You know the bathtub scene?
Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon makes a pact with Adrian and helps cover up her crime scene via the pig disposal garbage unit. Or pig's plural.
I'm not gonna let this pass up, but who's chief in charge of editing responsible for this movie? What's with all the double takes looped that have been left included? It's confusing.
I love how confronting Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon is when questioned. He's got an answer for everything and even answers a question with a question. Correct me if I'm wrong but he's got an east coast accent, right? So he's not the only one running from Adrian's neck of the woods. But how'd he wind up over here in LA?
He takes a midnight beating when three locals trespass and snoop on his property in search of missing loved ones as the noose is starting to tighten on his charade. As if an old war horse like this wouldn't be packing.
Out of character, Adrian breaks it down one working morning with unethical dance moves only accepted in the late 60s. Bit early in the morning for party time, isn't it? She must have popped some Quaaludes with her coffee, or something.
A city official from Philly tracks Adrian down with intentions of dragging her back to the asylum but I wouldn't like to be standing in his shoes. Adrian goes full-blown Norman Bates and shower scenes the city official in pretty straight forward circumstances.
With the murders piling up all parties start to lose composure. A vigilante posse forms and are on the trail of the suspicious activity.
And I'm beginning to wonder who's gonna kill who at the end between Adrian and Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon. And there you go, I read this movie like a book, Adrian just planted a carving knife into Farmer Harris-Jones Saxon's back and fed him to the swine. Back stabber!
Adrian fakes her own death and picks up John Voight - I thought it was David Bowie when he was thumbing a ride.
Voight informs Adrian that he's well endowed in size and too much to handle but with her expertise I bet his body showed up somewhere between LA and PA along the line.
I'm curious to know if Alan Ormsby was paying to attention to this movie as I'm detecting hints of 'Deranged' about this at times only 'Deranged' is a far superior movie.
Flesh eating porkers!!!
vampi196029 August 2006
pigs or otherwise known as daddy's deadly darling is a weird movie, made in 1972 it depicts a young girl(Toni Lawrence)who escapes an insane asylum after killing her father after she is raped,ends up at the restaurant of an ex circus performer(Marc Lawrence)who feeds people to his pigs.interesting concept flesh eating pigs.Marc Lawrence's real daughter plays Lynn,the attractive but unbalanced escapee.Marc Lawrence who i know from the movies;king of Kong's island,and the monster and the girl(1940's)also produced and directed this odd rarely seen horror picture.i first seen this on Elvira's movie macabre.which was like the early mst3k, but with Elvira and her awesome jokes and one liners.if you like strange movies this is for you,5 out of 10.
A truly bizarre stuff!
HumanoidOfFlesh29 November 2002
Warning: Spoilers
Lynn(Toni Lawrence-the daughter of Marc Lawrence)stabbed her father to death after he raped her.She believes that her daddy is still alive.She escapes from the asylum-stealing a car she flees into backwoods America,ending up at Zambrini's roadside diner.Zambrini(Marc Lawrence) has twelve pigs-he butchers people to feed his animals!"Daddy's Deadly Darling"/"Pigs" is another overlooked classic from early 70's.The script is wonderfully bizarre,the acting is pretty good and there is a bit of gore.The photography is grainy,even ugly looking at times-the film actually reminds me "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre","Last House on the Left" or "Eaten Alive".Some scenes are pretty creepy,so if you like horror movies give this little gem a look!
Video shop horror
adrianvangent-186-75149720 July 2021
Jessie Vint was the only actor I recognised back when I hired this movie from the video shop back in the day since then this movie fell into obscurity.
I found a VHS transfer on DVD a few years ago and it now has a Blu-ray release.
If you love cheesy 70"s-80"s horror then I highly recommend it However buy the Blu-ray restored release if you think it's worth a watch.
I found a VHS transfer on DVD a few years ago and it now has a Blu-ray release.
If you love cheesy 70"s-80"s horror then I highly recommend it However buy the Blu-ray restored release if you think it's worth a watch.
A pleasantly unvarnished drive-in artifact
EyeAskance22 May 2003
A doolally feature so disjointed that it makes you feel like you've been drinking Everclear all night, PIGS is one of the more underrecognized films in the 70s horror canon. An attractive girl fresh from the funny farm-(she killed her Father for you-know-what)-takes a waiting job in a Mayberry-hick diner operated by an old wacko who keeps a pen of flesh-hungry swine(a perfect disposal for those dead bodies that keep turning up).
Enjoyable soup-kitchen quickie with a groovy bubblegum pop intro, PIGS is plenteous with off-base appeal, and is a moderately more proficient contribution than the standard hireling-level picture of its day.
5.5/10
Enjoyable soup-kitchen quickie with a groovy bubblegum pop intro, PIGS is plenteous with off-base appeal, and is a moderately more proficient contribution than the standard hireling-level picture of its day.
5.5/10
Not a very pleasant film
christopher-underwood11 March 2022
Not a very pleasant film, although slightly different, and was also known as, Daddy's Dead Darling. Unsurprisingly the director, Marc Lawrence who was a character actor who did some 200 hundred or so films, also was the odd old man who had the pigs and was his daughter, Toni Lawrence, who played the troubled young girl. It is a rather tawdry and unpleasant film but the two actors are good as are the pigs who look pretty horrible and the terrible squealing. The killing is not particulary bloody but there is a rather unpleasant feel about the whole film.
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