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sick and twisted, 6 June 2004
Author: nekroman from Sacramento

Consider me a fan of the more fringe and extreme movies in circulation. I guess it's more of a curiosity factor than a genuine fondness for the grotesque. That very curiosity is what lead me to watch this movie. I'll say right off that there is almost nobody that would find this "enjoyable" and anybody that does needs to be locked up. But it is definitely a movie that lives up to its reputation. There's no spoken language and the picture is shoddy black and white. The only soundtrack consists of everyday farm noises and organ music that sounds like Ned from South Park singing while drowning in a tub of grease. Yes, it's that weird. Then we get to the actual "plot". A lone farmer with a bestiality fetish rapes a sow on his farm only to confront the offspring, his emotions about the sow, and a horribly disgusting habit of drinking tea made from his own sewage! No reasons are ever given to the man's motives and nothing is ever explained. For example why does this guy enjoy putting doll heads on pigeons? But as far as the sicko movies goes it deserves a high spot. If you watched Salo: 120 Days of Sodom and shook it right off this may be your next conquest although for the life of me I don't know why anybody would purposefully seek this out. Then again I did so nevermind.

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Kids! You know what time it is? That's right... it's post-apocalyptic pig-boinking time!, 19 March 2007
Author: Torgo_Approves from El Paso!

Can you think of anything more interesting than seeing a demented farmer walk around his farm for 80 minutes, occasionally playing dress-up with his birds, beheading his chickens, and having steamy sex with his wife, who happens to be a pig? I know I can. Which is quite sad, because the description on IMDb really made this seem like a movie worth seeing, if only for its originality and absurdity. Unfortunately, everything negative that has been said about this movie is true: it moves at a snail's pace, it's uninteresting, very disgusting, and ultimately not worth seeing. I fail to see the deeper meaning of a man running around naked in the mud chasing a sow, but then again, I never was that good at reading between the lines. What do I know? Maybe this is the epitome of genius, but I found it to be a waste of time and chances are that so will you. Don't see this movie.

But any advice that I give you is not going to matter anyway, is it? You're probably going to see the film out of sheer morbid curiosity anyway. After all, how could any fan of obscure film pass up the chance to see something called "The Pig F----ng Movie"? You just decide for yourself how much time you really want to waste on this... um... "film". Don't say I didn't warn you!

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Disgusting trash passed off as "art", 24 April 2006
1/10
Author: Helltopay27 from United States

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Wedding Trough is a sick piece of garbage that no human being should ever be subjected to ever knowing about, let alone viewing. Despite being an art-house film obscurity with some of the most surrealistic images ever captured on film, it's still one of the most repugnant, upsetting, and disturbing films ever made, and is no different than any other exploitation sleaze made during this period. It's sheer ability to bore and disgust is incredible beyond belief, with displays so nauseating that I had to turn away from the screen several times. I can honestly say it's the only movie that almost set off my gag reflex. Surrealism is supposed to be the interpretation and display of the artist's unconscious mind. If this is true, then director Thierry Zéno must be a latent zoophiliac who likes to subject people to the most insanely strange and disgusting series of events that will make you think the human race is doomed if even one more person remotely similar to this man exists (and there is: "star" Dominique Garny). What makes it worse is that it wasn't a painting that he used to express his warped mind, but had it actually acted out with real creatures.

It's hard to examine this movie chronologically, because there essentially is no plot to speak of. More, it's the time and trials of a perverse and morally depraved farmer and his hubby, the pig. You'd almost have to describe every random and outright bizarre scene one by one in order. It opens with the farmer trying to fasten doll heads onto pigeons, and after doing this for a few minutes, he decides to go grope his pig. The movie is full of random displays of a man and his pig "bonding," such as both of them sitting and rolling in a giant pile of manure. Anyway, he decides to get naked around his pig a couple of times, then chases it around, and finally commits the deed. If you thought it might happen off screen or in the shadows, you're dead wrong. He screws his pig in full daylight with thrusts so graphic that it actually seems like he's having sex with it. When the piglets are finally born (with the births shown in their full "glory"), he tries to bond with his children, but they don't like him too much. So, he hangs them all. The sow freaks out, runs off, and drowns in a mud hole. Now that the love of his life is gone, he tries burying himself alive (which doesn't work out too well), so he spends the last ten minutes of the movie eating his own liquidated crap until he mercifully hangs himself for his sake and ours.

Specifically, the stomach-churning scenes throughout are too many to count. Most notably are obviously the seriously disturbing shows of loving animals way too much (though it's no different than what you would see at a PETA compound). Other completely random and disturbing acts are animals copulating constantly, scenes of the farmer collecting strange materials and mixtures in jars, and the most vomit-worthy of all, the ten minutes of already eaten smörgåsbord, which I can say in all honesty was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life. I was also surprised to see that some animals were also actually killed in the movie. Early on, a chicken has its head cut off with a straight razor, and the farmer puts the body in a cage while it runs around decapitated for about a minute before it dies. The sow and piglets also seem to have really been killed. But shocking and nauseating displays aren't the only things going against this movie. The film is downright boring. It crawls at a pace so slow that it makes Atom Age Vampire look like Terminator 2. Scenes are drawn out way too long, some that involve the farmer walking around doing nothing, others just show close ups of animals (again, often having sex), and they often last over ten minutes! The strange acts don't hold your attention for more than a few minutes, and when the scene changes, it's another chance for you to test your constitution and think, "Oh boy, here we go again!"

Because I don't enjoy the inner-mechanisms of a perverse psycho's mind doesn't mean that I can't interpret art. Rather, I think this is the farthest thing you can get from art, because scenes are set up in such a way that it seems that this is simply trying to be nauseating exploitation (the coprophagia scenes, for example). As a result, any underlying messages that may be present are lost in the barrage of filth coming from the screen. Surely there are other horrifyingly grotesque films out there as art (notably Jörg Buttgereit's works), but at least those films can be found somewhat tragic and even beautiful as they deal with human feelings and sadness. This, however, is a freak show meant only to push the limits of surrealism to include perversity beyond the realm of the imagination. Its only intention in art is to hope someone who views it is naive enough to think that any bizarre images caught on a visual medium automatically makes something surrealistic art (surreal, yes; art, no). I seriously suggest that anyone curious beyond belief to see this should skip it. It's better to be driven mad by curiosity than to be stuck with these images trapped in your head for the rest of your life.

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Truly sick and repellent Belgian art-house zoophilia film., 5 June 2005
8/10
Author: HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland

A farmer(Dominique Garny)who may be the last man on earth,loves and makes love to a huge sow-pig.When the sow gives birth,he takes the piglets from her to keep her from eating them,and knits cute little infant things for them.When the piglets abandon him for their mother,he executes them by hanging,and the sow shows the first distress she has shown for the whole film."Wedding Trough",more commonly known as "The Pig Fu*king Movie" is certainly one of the sickest films ever made.It's loaded with scenes of implied bestiality,coprophagia and insanity,so fans of unrelentingly grim,experimental transgressions will be satisfied.The action is set on a secluded rural farm and the film is completely devoid of dialogue.Still despite its truly repellent subject matter the action is slow,but the scenes of the farmer sodomizing his swine or eating his own excrement are sick as hell.Give it a look,only if you are into extreme cinema.8 out of 10.

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Intense "Vases De Noces" gives a disturbing look at the end of man's survival, 2 February 2007
6/10
Author: fudgepax261 from United States

I approached Vases De Noces with sheer caution, knowing what would lie ahead of me and all the talk surrounding it, it remains as strange, quiet, savage and disgusting. It has scenes that are revolting and ugly, you could beg the film for mercy to end and it still lingers on the screen like smoke. Vases De Noces could be on a category of its own. We see things as bestiality, corophagia, urine-drinking, etc and it does not shy away on what we can do is just stare or just close our eyes. Others have said that it's disgusting, vile, nasty, and sick and I have to agree that the film is not so enjoyable.

Sure all of this could make out that Vases De Noces (aka The *beep* movie) is such a wretched film that could leave you nauseated and would make you not look at an animal for a while, why is there a movie like Vases De Noces around? Was it done to just shock, disgust? Or enjoy? I could say the first two, knowing what I would wouldn't see. It is a film that has disappeared from out of thin air, nowhere to be found for someone to see and if they did, they shouldn't.

What I found so fascinating is how the farmer lives, he uses hot coals to take baths, prays before he eats, does his business in a portable toilet. Lingers about his farm tending to his chickens or putting dolls on them or just frolicking with his pig.Sure, frolicking with his beloved pig; chasing it around, rolling around the manure,until finally having sex that made me flinch in disgust, it's not too graphic but weirdly well done.Many reviewers have focus on the content and how tedious it is,never noticing how the sky and landscape shows how the post-apocalyptic the world is. After the pig has died and the Farmer burying himself with the pig, it is lurid.There is an amazing long shot of the black and white landscape fading slowly before the Farmer rises from the pigs grave. A strange but funny scene when the farmer eats and feeds his offspring, the little piglets run over to his plate. Refusing their food only to eat his and again and again he puts them back to their plate only to find them going back to his plate.

This review will make you think I enjoyed this film,although I can admit that I only enjoyed the cinematography and the isolation of the farmer.Watching this after watching the tedious Nekromantik 2 which went on and went on, I was engulfed from the loneliness of the farmer.Like the first original Nekromantik, the hero kills himself after it's horrific lifestyle in a very enigmatic way.Not much things are explained and I don't mind at all. I settle in giving Vases De Noces three stars out of four or a 6 1/2 out of 10, Not to saying I hated it or loved it, all I could tell you is don't watch it.

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Quite possibly the worst film ever made., 14 July 2008
1/10
Author: theskulI42 from Denver, CO

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It's a movie about a guy f-cking a pig. I mean, come on, I HAD to watch it.

Anyway, the problem with the film is not that he f-cks a pig and has pig-human hybrid babies. I expected it to be icky. I'm good with icky. What I'm not good with is BORING and the problem here is the outright lameness of the enterprise. Poor-quality video, poor-quality audio, and just overall poor quality. The film is plodding, muddled, nonsensical, amateurish and just overall bad.

I mean, this is the kind of movie that you would EXPECT to have poor technical quality, but that doesn't make it any more allowable. Some of you might be saying, "That sounds f-cking insane, I've GOT to see that!" and I'm here to tell you: No. No, you don't. More boring than it is icky, it just overall sucks, even for a movie about a guy f-cking a pig.

{Grade: 0/10 (F) / #32 (of 32) of 1974}

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nearly a masterpiece, 3 January 2008
8/10
Author: jagerhans from Italy

"Vase de Noces" is an outstanding flick . Its meaning is obvious: it's an allegory about obsession (not a particular one, provided that the particulars - teaching the pigs good manners, marrying a sow, collecting feces - are totally inane , but any mind-destroying compulsion developed in insulation ) which finally leads the obsessed one to destroy his sick love and finally himself. There is an identification man <-> obsessions and when the objects of the obsession fail, we understand that our hero is necessarily doomed. The fact that it's very graphical and disturbing is functional to the message. It is beautifully shot with great mastership of the medium, the music comment is awesome and Dominique Garny plays "heroically" his role. Now this can sound like a provocation but I think that one of the good things in this movie is that it is never excessive. The same plot in the hands of a less skilled director/actor would result in a mere shocker movie full of bad taste (imagine this movie in "Technicolor" or directed by john waters), not in that lonely descent to hell depicted by this outstanding movie. Its limit is that the story could reach a higher expressive impact if developed by a more creative director - I imagine that some Pasolini or Lynch could do even better than this.

And as pointed out before, one who willfully watches a movie called "the pig-f***ing movie" automatically loses his right to complain.

One last word to that plethora of Philistines who commented on this thread so far: "when the finger points at the moon, the ... look at the finger" . Please spare us your nonsenses. We already know that feces and pigs are gross, find some other argument or change your schedule.

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You wanted pig-boinking. You found it...., 30 April 2009
3/10
Author: Copaface from United Kingdom

Now I will admit I am a huge fan of any film deemed disturbing, gross or wrong (my download collection includes all of the Guinea Pig movies, Un Chien Andalou, Nekromantik among many others) and it actually took me a while to hear of Vase de Noces. I eventually heard about it on Listverse on a list of Top Ten Most Disturbing Movies. It was not on the list but someone had suggested it in the comments. On looking it up on IMDb I knew instantly that it must be added to my library of gross movies... After hours battling with The Pirate Bay, Limewire and Youtorrent (I don't pay for anything. Sue me.) I managed to download a full VHSrip of the movie (which I will happily send to anyone who wants it :] message me) and I watched it alone one night... If, like me, you love the grossness of films like this, you will not be disappointed. Otherwise I wouldn't recommend it. I admit it was hard to concentrate on the artiness of the film when man-pig breeding and coprophagia is going on but I did take a few minutes to appreciate the surreal aura of the film. As artsy as it is you gotta admit, somebody's gotta be smoking something to come up with this idea. Then again, this seems like the kind of idea I would come up with... It is definitely an acquired taste and it takes someone with guts of steel to really appreciate it. But I say go for it! It can't be worse than Two Girls One Cup...

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A shocker with a shocking soundtrack., 16 March 2006
7/10
Author: charleswbrown from Bradford, United Kingdom

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Be warned this film does feature excrement eating, sex with animals, oh and a chicken has its head cut off. But it's all done with style. The film features a man that has sex with a pig, and this results in the pig having human/pig hybrids. The piglets love their mother more than him so he kills them by hanging them and the mother then kills herself. He them buries himself alive with her but resurrects himself, this leads on the excrement eating to which he becomes violently ill due to and the film ends on the actors hanging himself from a very high ladder, oddly enough. I have met and attended a screen talk with Thierry Zeno, the director and he is a very laid back and proud director. The film did shock/disturb me but it wasn't the on-screen imagery which did this, it was the surreal and odd soundtrack which is just brilliant.

I can't imagine this film will ever be shown on Broadcast TV or the cinema again so try and buy it!

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In my opinion, the most disturbing movie ever created.............................., 20 May 2006
8/10
Author: TheOriginalDroogie from Australia

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Wedding Trough is a notorious Belgian Art House/Horror flick from the 1970's. It delivers very strongly in the field of sleaze and exploitation. In my opinion, it is the most disturbing film I have ever seen, therefore the most disturbing movie ever created.

The story follows the life of a farmer (Dominique Garner) who lives by himself on a farm. He's main interests are taking doll heads and attaching them to pigeons heads, eating his own faeces which he stores in jars and making cups of tea out of his own urine. The main love of his life is an un-named pig who he has sex with in detail. The pig then proceeds to have babies and when the babies are born they ignore the farmer causing him to hang the piglets. This distresses the Pig and so he kills the pig. He then eats his own faeces and commits suicide.

Vase de Noces aka. The Pig Fu cking Movie aka. Wedding Trough is a deeply unsettling film. It will leave you shocked after wards. After 12 months of not watching the movie, I have a clear recollection of what happens in this movie. The film crosses off a whole list of taboos such as coprophillia, urine drinking, bestiality, surrealism, animal cruelty, so be prepared if you want to watch this movie.

Because of my taste for extreme cinema, I decided to watch this movie and although it did bore me in parts (absolutely no dialogue, black and white, only thing heard is barnyard animal noises), it is the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. This movie takes the cake compared to other exploitation classics such as Cannibal Holocaust, Salo, Make Them Die Slowly, I Spit On Your Grave etc. and I recommend it to those with a strong stomach and mind.

8 out of 10 stars.

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