Chaw

Chaw (2009)

차우

This Time Mankind Is Pork.

A black comedy about the events that are set into motion in a town after a man-eating boar goes on a rampage.

Date of release
2009-07-15
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (59)
Runtime
2h 1m
Genres
Horror, Comedy, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Director
Shin Jung-won

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $10.8M
  • Budget: $7M
  • Earned 1.5× its budget

Chaw (Korean: 차우), released in the United States as Chawz, is a 2009 South Korean action-adventure film about a mutant killer pig wreaking havoc on a small mountain town, and the ragtag team of five who set out to stop the beast. The Korean title is pronounced "chow", which means "trap" in Chungcheong dialect.

Production

Director Shin Jung-won said his film adopted a typical Hollywood B movie monster narrative to tackle environmental issues, particularly the serious destruction inflicted on Korea's ecology. He said Korea had never had a film dealing with real-life killer creatures like Alligator and Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid and was "intrigued by the idea of a familiar animal attacking and killing humans and wanted to create something out of this u…

After filming in Seoul, the production crew and the main actors flew to the United States to shoot special effects scenes. The shooting lasted for 40 days in San Francisco. Misunderstandings in interpreting the nuance of a scene or dialogue sometimes arose between the U.S.

It took three years and ₩3 billion to design and realize via animatronics, stuntmen with costumes, and CG ― provided by the creative team Polygon Entertainment and Stareast Digital Lab led by Hans Uhlig and Erik Jensen ― a mutated, super-sized pig that develops a taste for human flesh.

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