Barney Burman's Wild Boar 2020 Written and directed by Barney Burnam. Barney's a makeup man most of the time. This is his first feature film and I watched it in the free section of Amazon Prime.
Some annoying geocachers go in search of a possible treasure in a grim area of the desert. They find a tunnel in an abandoned building and it leads them to a place where pig men live. The opening credits make you think that nuke testing is the cause. The film's opening credits show old TV images of live pigs in the test houses slated for atomic destruction. Now those pigs are massive bipeds who wear the skins of other animals. The pig men kill some of the geocachers, Augie Duke is our main survivor, she gets caught but not killed. She escapes with the help of another woman in their party but that lady doesn't last too long. There's the usual sort of run and chase and slash and shoot but nothing stands out but the makeup on the pig men. I wouldn't need to watch it again.
Solum 2019 Written by Diogo Morgado and Pedro Morgado, directed by Diogo Morgado. A Portuguese SF film shot in the Azores. Very pretty scenery.
Some people are landed on an island and told to try to survive as part of a reality TV show. They are each given one tool, a phone, and a remote. The remote is to get themselves taken out of the game but the first person who uses it is killed in a rather odd way. It turns out that the reality show is virtual and they don't know anything about it. It gets more and more complicated as more backstory is revealed.
A new guy shows up and he chases and kills members of the original group. His capture reveals more info about the real world. It's not good, there aren't many humans left, aliens managed to save some, then they put them in a reality TV show setting for some reason. We keep seeing shots of a damaged Earth and we are told later in the movie that the humans did it to themselves.
I kind of liked the concept but the way they told the story didn't keep my attention at times. About average for me, nice scenery, not one I would need to see again.
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