Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your bacon, here comes Chaw. A pork-flavored version of The Host, this flick is a take on Jaws only with a giant killer pig instead of a giant killer shark and, probably, a lot more pot got smoked while the script was being written. If you're looking for straight-up horror you won't find it here. But if you want to see the horror genre turned on its head in a movie that's 80% black comedy, 50% animal rights manifesto, 70% action comedy, and 150% bad at doing math, then this pig's for you.

Sameri, The Crimeless Village, where the police are more into peeping in windows that anything else. Big city cop, Officer Kim (Uhm Tae-Woong) gets transferred from Seoul to this sleepy backwater burb and he hates it from his very first breath of country air. He hates it even more when the local scheme to rip off city slickers with a bogus "Weekend Organic Farming Project" is interrupted by a giant boar attack. The mayor refuses to close the mountain ("It's harvest season!" he protests) but as the half-eaten bodies pile up something has to be done.

Massive setpieces pay homage to everything from Jurassic Park to Aliens and the tension is constantly undermined by a deeply weird sense of humor. The killer boar itself is one part cheesy special effect, and two parts out-of-control, screaming freight train of porky terror. With wacky slapstick sitting next to PETA-caliber shock footage, and genuine ecological concerns (wild boars in Korea really have become endangered by human encroachment) nuzzling up next to absurdist action (a giant pig attacks a karaoke party), Chaw changes tone and mood so quickly that it'll give you whiplash. The result is more like a movie by Joe Dante (Gremlins) than Steven Spielberg, and by the time it's over you'll never again be able to look your bacon in its eyes again.