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18 out of 23 people found the following comment useful :-
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

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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What Do You Expect From Something Called THE PIG F!CKING FILM???, 27 June 2006

Author: EVOL666 from St. John's Abortion Clinic

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I'm gonna get to the point with this one. Many consider this film "shocking". I guess if you consider simulated pig-sex and sh!t eating "shocking" - then it is. Most consider it "disgusting" and "depraved" - no real argument there. Some say it's the "SICKEST FILM EVER MADE" - that statement I *would* dispute. Call it what ya will, VASE DE NOCES (aka WEDDING TROUGH aka THE PIG F!CKING FILM) is definitely strange - but I guess I'm one of the few that actually "saw" something in this film. It's no masterpiece by any stretch - but there's something about it that makes it "interesting"...

A guy who looks like Mr. Bean lives a solitary life on a small farm amidst the ruins of a large building. He co-habitates with chickens and turkeys, some birds, and...oh yes - his pig. Seems Bean has a fondness for his pig - as he spends much of the beginning of the film chasing after it in a "courting" manner. Eventually, Bean "mates" (ungraphically) with the pig and they produce offspring. Other reviewers said that they were mutant man/pig hybrids - they looked like normal pig-babies to me. Bean tries unsuccessfully to play the "good Daddy" role - and when the babies are unresponsive - he hangs them. The momma pig is distraught about this series of events and drowns herself in a mud-hole. This effectively ends any sort of "rational behavior" that Bean once had, and when he unsuccessfully tries to bury himself with his now deceased "bride" - he commits to eating his own crap before hanging himself...

I can't exactly put my finger on what I found "interesting" about this film - so I'll start with the down-sides: first off, the film is WWWAAAYYYY too long. There's lot's of boring stuff that could've been cut from it, shortened to about 30-minutes, and it would have been just as "effective". 90-minutes was just too much. The beastiality "angle" is obviously gonna bother some. There are scenes of dead hanging piglets and some chicken-head-cutting-offing that will no doubt inflame the PETA-crew. Now, to what I thought were the "positive" aspects. The film itself is done in such a way as to wonder what the backstory is on this chain of events. Who is Mr. Bean? Why is he living this strange, almost child-like solitary existence? None of this is ever actually explained, but the way his character is written, makes him seem more than just some pig-effing pervert - it's almost as though he knows no better. The sound-design and "score" are suitably strange and fit the mood of the film perfectly. I think that there are some underlying "themes" of the film, regarding jealousy, nurturing, possibly mental-illness, etc...that although unresolved by the end of the film, are brought up and exposed - or maybe I'm just grasping and the film is really just about a pig-effing pervert. Regardless, I can't say that I "enjoyed" the film, but again - I did find it "interesting". I would suggest a look to those that dig subversive, uber-weirdo, experimental/art-house type films. Most people trash this film (and are justified in doing so...) but I guess for me it's a situation of one-man's-trash-being-another-man's-WEDDING-TROUGH...8/10

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Truly sick and repellent Belgian art-house zoophilia film., 5 June 2005

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

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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A vile, depressing experience, 28 August 2007

Author: theevildead23 from United Kingdom

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I have nonetheless given this piece an 8, if only to raise its profile. Many have compared this to Lynch's feature-length debut Eraserhead (which Vase De Noces predates by three years). Although I see some similarities - how males deal with childbirth, the heaving black and white cinematography, the eclectic soundtrack - I am loath to compare the two myself. Whereas Eraserhead is renowned for being the archetypal "midnight movie", it is umpteen times more accessible than Vase De Noces.

What drove me to watch this film? As with everyone else, curiosity. I had heard about the infamous moments in the film and thought that nobody would dare commit them to celluloid. When Wikipedia advertised it as a "lost film", a trigger flipped in my head and I had to find it. That the only copy available is a shaky nth-generation VHS lends the film the appropriate integrity for its infamy. While even the original may have been tough to sit through, the constant crackling and pitch-bending of the soundtrack makes it infinitely harder to watch, and the picture quality is so inconsistent that it can take a minute to work out what is being shown on screen (of course, once you have worked it out, you'll wish you hadn't).

On to the "plot". A Belgian farmer falls for a sow and engages in several sex acts with her. As a result, she falls pregnant and bears a litter of pig-children (supposedly mutants - it isn't instantly clear). When the pig-children favour their mother for affection, the farmer is devastated and hangs them all. The sow, on discovering this, drowns herself in mud. Remorseful, the farmer hangs himself, feeling he has nothing to live for. The end. No, really.

Many suggest that this is set in the future and that our protagonist is the last remaining human on Earth. While this could be true, I personally believe that it is a timeless piece, with very little to imply the time period (when were jars invented?). What matters is that this man is incredibly isolated and is, perhaps as a result, chronically depressed (this may explain his romance with the pig, and the coprophagia). Throughout the film, we see clips of him forcing dolls' heads on pigeons and arranging various foul substances in jars, maybe to pass the time, maybe as an obsessive mania, nothing is for certain. What is certain is that this man is a sad case (the actor too if some of the more unsavoury moments are played out for real), and we as viewers have a disturbing experience intruding on his life. In conclusion, this is a thoroughly difficult film to watch and, although I have a weakness for such experiences, you will need a strong stomach and a lot of patience. In no way is this film rewarding or enjoyable; nonetheless it stays with you and I will defend it on the basis that it is not exclusively exploitative and that there will never have to be another film like it.

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Depraved entertainment. Don't' call it "art"., 9 June 2006

Author: insomniac_rod from Noctropolis

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Obscure! sick! depraved! I dug it. I didn't enjoy most of the movie's scenes. Believe me, watching a man penetrating a pig isn't something nice to watch. Also, it's not a pleasure to watch a man eating his own excrement. What I liked about the movie is the obscure character development of "the man". I wonder what kind of mental disease or sickness this man had. He found sexual pleasure with animals but also generated love feelings towards animals. He even decides to have his own family with the pig and later kills them all... Poor little pigs. So the director tried to have a love story but only shows how humans can also be demented.

The movie surely is disturbing because of it's grotesque scenes and sounds but it isn't something that will sincerely shock you. If you don't watch it objectively, you might consider it as a piece of crap. I could only recommend this movie for people who are into psychology and weird fixations.

This is classified as an art movie but in my opinion is just a poor excuse of shocking film making. This movie seems to have vanished from earth.

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One Man and his Pig- a shocking experimental film that will shake anyone to the core!!!!, 26 March 2008

Author: RegardeLaMer from United States

Well, with a title like "The Pig F*cking Movie" you can only expect something to the extent of someone doing something with a pig or a pig doing something, carnally. With a title like this, yes of course one would be shocked and pretty unsettled by something like this, but let's admit something here... If you are on this database for this title, you are a bit curious about this one. I must say that I don't think anyone should appease to their curiosity and actually see this movie- it was pretty crazy and disturbing. I know when I saw it with some friends, they were genuinely disgusted and horrified. Stuff like this typically does upset and frighten people, but we all must face the crucial idea that this kind of stuff happens every day and although it may be taboo and shocking, it's real. However, a man sodomizing a pig doesn't normally lead to half human, half pig babies; as they did in this movie. One can say that this film was experimental because of the way the film was shot and the way the film had absolutely no dialogue or real sound effects, just a crazy soundtrack and a lot of bodily sounds like when he was on his vase taking a sh*t, it sounded like Zeno recorded someone making sounds of flagellation and put it in the film for added laughter.

The film starts out in a rather unsettling way; we see a man trying to put porcelain doll heads on some pigeon's heads. It was pretty comical, yet cruel. There is no real reason he does this, besides his own sick amusement and personal pleasure. The guy really does a lot to ease his own personal pleasure and really forgets about how he cares for nobody else other than himself (anyone can argue and say that he cared for the piglets, but that's a load of bs). He then goes on to taking a sick interest in the sow of the farm; he first chases it around and "flirts" with it, when he rolls around with her in animal and human excrement. He eventually goes on to sodomizing the pig and delivering her half-human, half-piglet babies. He will go onto be a "father" to the piglets. How could he father them in his mind-setting? He decides to knit them small sweaters (that don't even fit them) and then goes onto try and eat a supper with them. Unfortunately, the piglets are uncivilized; they're animals afterall! He gets really angry and hangs the three when he discovers that they are nothing like him and would prefer to be with their mother. This sick and selfish act will excite the sow to run away and fall into a pit, where she would die. He discovers his love's body in the pit and contemplates his own suicide when he buries her; he thinks about burying himself alive, but instead decides to defecate once more and actually eat his own excrement, boil it in a tea kettle and then put in a jar for later use. The jars played a crucial part in this film... I didn't quite understand it, but whatever. He then vomits in a vase and puts that in a jar. He will then realize what has just happened to him and decides to hang himself.

Well, what's beautiful about this film? I thought the fact that there was no dialogue and no sound effects was pretty amazing and revolutionary for film-making. Zeno knew what he was doing; he KNEW that his audience was going to be shocked and horrified. I don't think the actual animal killing was necessary. I disagreed with that completely! The soundtrack was amazing! It was so damn strange and made some of the uncomfortable parts at least fathomable.

It was banned worldwide for a good reason! This film was not only disturbing, it was disgusting and pretty damn cruel. I know PETA would definitely have a field day with this one! I do believe this film deserves some more recognition. I can't really recommend this movie to anyone with an innocent or seemingly innocent mindset. If you think you have seen everything... You haven't! Trust me! Pretty interesting film. Pretty shocking, but I liked it!

7.5

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A shocker with a shocking soundtrack., 16 March 2006

Author: charlie-346 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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