10 Great Horror Movies With Terrible Concepts

Released in 1984 and largely unheralded until decades later when it was recognized as the camp but surprisingly scary classic of Ozploitation that it is, Razorback is a classic piece of Australian horror.

Unlike, say, Wolf Creek or Wait In Fright, however, the film’s villain is… A wild boar.

Okay, so this “killer pig” horror is, unlike a lot of the flicks on this list, not attempting to subvert or shrewdly mess with its apparent premise. No, this one is legitimately a monster movie where an overgrown pig plays the villainous role.

And despite this seemingly silly premise the film is a superb success, as the sparse cast are picked off in the film’s stunning isolated outback setting by the largely unseen threat, glimpsed only in shadows.

Filled with striking and evocative imagery and moving at an impressive pace, this creature feature succeeds not by lightening its tone but by taking its conceit seriously and convincing the audience that there are few things scarier than a feral hog. Well, maybe a few more of them. Say, thirty to fifty?.