Pig Hill (2025) FRIGHTFEST Review

Pig Hill (2025) FRIGHTFEST Review

Shot on location in Meadville, Pennsylvania — the origin of the real urban legend — Pig Hill follows Carrie (Rainey Qualley), a woman haunted by a series of unexplained disappearances. As she investigates, she becomes entangled in the local lore of the “pig people,” uncovering a terrifying truth hidden in generations of myth. Alongside her new friend Andy (Shane West) and her brother Chris (Shiloh Fernandez), Carrie’s search for answers becomes a desperate fight for survival.

PIG HILL works best in its first half, there is a terrifically moody score, great photography and I was all for seeing where it would go, unfortunately turns out that there was not enough juice in the tank to get this all the way to where it could have gone. The ‘unmasking’ of the ‘pig person’ responsible for the local disappearances plays out beyond what is needed – I guessed early on who the perpetrator was – and by stretching out the reveal by over-explaining their motivation kills the mood that the film had spent time building and before the big reveal.