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The owner of a roadside diner, and his new helper, kill people and feed them to pigs.The owner of a roadside diner, and his new helper, kill people and feed them to pigs.The owner of a roadside diner, and his new helper, kill people and feed them to pigs.
Catherine Ross
- Miss Macy
- (as Katherine Ross)
Bruce Adams
- Pig Farmer
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAccording to director Marc Lawrence, at the film's theatrical premiere in Detroit, Michigan on May 23, 1973, the distributor offered free bacon to the audience as part of a promotion, most of which was quietly and cautiously returned after it was over.
- GoofsThere is a camera shadow behind Lynn when she stabs Jess Winter in Zambrini's diner.
- Alternate versionsAside from Marc Lawrence's original cut of the film, which was titled "The 13th Pig", two other versions of it exist. The first one featured a three-minute introduction depicting Toni Lawrence's character Lynn Hart (here portrayed by a different but similar-looking actress) being possessed by a demon and the subject of an exorcism, ending with her running from the room. This version was exhibited under various titles, including "Love Exorcist" and "Blood Pen". The second one featured an all-new introduction that shows Lynn's childhood experiences with her incestuous father, ending with her stabbing him to death with a knife after he had raped her and then being committed to an asylum because she believes that her father is still alive. She escapes when a nurse undresses to have sex with a doctor, leaving behind her uniform and her car keys. There is also a new ending in this version, which shows Lynn faking her own death and later being picked up on the side of the road by an elderly man in his car who, as she tells him, reminds her of her "Daddy". Lynn is portrayed in these additional scenes by various actresses wearing wigs and photographed from obscure angles. This version was originally titled "Daddy's Girl". This is also the version that was released to home video by various companies and again under various titles, including "Daddy's Deadly Darling", "Pigs", "The Killers" and "Horror Farm".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Pigs (1984)
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This little piggy stayed at home and watched a demented drive-in feature
Ladies and Gentlemen, the hall of 70's exploitation obscurity proudly presents "Pigs", a movie made by, made for and of course largely revolving on
Pigs! Just in case you're looking for a totally incompetent yet strangely fascinating and one of a kind drive in class-sick, I warmly recommend this movie which Marc Lawrence (supportive cast member of such acclaimed classics as "Key Largo" and "The Asphalt Jungle") wrote, produced, starred in and directed entirely by himself! "Pigs", which is a much easier and equally appropriate title to use instead of the official "Daddy's Deadly Darling", blends two main story lines that are typical 70's exploitation guff (meaning: absurd and utterly tasteless), yet the wholesome feels refreshing and unique. The opening sequences introduce Lynn Webster. She's a beautiful and impressively voluptuous young girl who has just slain her father because he couldn't keep his hands to himself and a certain other body part inside his pants. One minor problem, however, Lynn refuses to accept her daddy is dead and she even escapes from the asylum to search for him. Why she desperately wants to be reunited with the guy who physically abused her is just one of the many weird kinks in the plot that remains unexplained and neglected. I guess it's because she's mentally unstable and those people tend to desire weird things. Anyway, she arrives at a remote countryside diner where funny farmer Zambrini employs her as a waitress. Zambrini has a couple of issues of his own, though. To a corpse he stole from the local morgue he explains how his pigs accidentally developed a taste for human blood. It started when they devoured a drunkard who fell asleep in their barnyard, but now they exclusively crave human flesh. The rest of the film is pure but amusing nonsense, with Lynn gradually losing whatever's left of her sanity and Zambrini desperately collecting corpses to keep his porkers satisfied. Jesse Vint stars as the handsome Sheriff investigating the odd events at Zambrini's farm and, like any other male character, he falls for Lynn's gorgeous rack. "Pigs" guarantees 80 minutes of uncompromising and demented 'Rednecksploitation' fun! Naturally it's a horrible film, complete with amateurish acting performances and dialogs that appear to have been written by the pigs, but trained admirers of cinematic 70's smut won't be able to resist it. The camera-work looks hideous, Marc Lawrence clearly never heard of editing and the make-up effects wouldn't even scare a child. "Pigs" also features a misfit but incredibly catchy theme song called "Somebody's Waiting For You" (misfit songs were almost obligatory in 70's drive-in classics) and the endlessly repeated "La la lalalla la la" tunes. Marc Lawrence donated the role of Lynn to his real-life daughter Toni, presumably to launch her career. It must have been awkward, for the both of them, to shoot all the sequences where she wears a revealing and too tight nightgown. Do I sense incestuous undertones? Sure, why not
Everything goes in the wondrously twisted world of 70's exploitation, right?
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- Jan 7, 2008
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- Pigs
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- Lake Piru, California, USA(main location)
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- $100,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973) officially released in India in English?
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