The 13th Pig (1973)

(AKA: Pigs - Daddy's Deadly Darling - Blood Pen - The Pigs - Horror Farm - The Strange Exorcism of Lynn Hart - The Secret of Lynn Hart - and others)

My rating 5.5/10

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A young woman who was sexually abused by her father as a child goes insane and kills him. As a young woman she escapes the asylum and takes off to a small town where she rents a room in a small diner. The owner has 12 pigs in a pen at the rear and when the young woman starts to kill again the bodies are given to the pigs to eat.

Directed by Mark Lawrence and staring his daughter Toni, it was made as a way to show off her acting skills in the hope of gaining her more work. This is actually a decent, low budget drive-in movie and worth checking out. Sure the acting, script and direction isn't great but it has a certain charm to it. Toni Lawrence is decent as Lynn Hart and a couple of the kills are quite nasty.

The 13th Pig is the title of this directors cut but there are two alternate versions with different start and endings, one of which shows Lynn as a child leading up to the killing of her father. The UK release on VHS under the Pigs title got into trouble during the video nasty panic in the early 80s. It was never banned but the tagline "Pigs eat everything, even evidence" was probably the cause of it's problems as the police have the nickname pigs here so, I don't know, maybe they took offense. Go in with low expectations and you'll find some decent entertainment here.

SCREEN SHOTS

LOW QUALITY SCREEN SHOTS FROM THE ALTERNATE OPENING SCENE UNDER THE DADDY'S DEADLY DARLING TITLE

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