If One Is Born a Swine... Kill Him / Carogne si nasce (Alfonso Brescia, 1968)

Grinder · March 22, 2022, 6:37pm

English Dub is confirmed

makesthemovie · March 23, 2022, 5:48pm

I’m really excited about this one, I remember seeing some the film on the Database’s YouTube channel when it uploaded a few of the rarer SWs in full, a shame the channel had to stop showing them. Gordon Mitchell’s an absolute blast in his role.

ElDavido · March 24, 2022, 5:09am

Don’t expect too much though! Pretty average stuff. Brescia never made a solid, thoroughly entertaining Spagh IMO. It has some good scenes though, like the opening one. Very Spaghesque

JonathanCorbett · March 25, 2022, 12:27am

Brescia’s SWs are mid-level but I kinda like them, between the five my least favourite is The Colt Is My Law. The two adventure films from the mid-seventies with Robert Woods and Pedro Sanchez on the contrary are by their very nature not very interesting.

Alleluja · August 15, 2022, 7:53pm

Is the following review correct?

Especially, I suspect the captured images may not be from this DVD, but from Italian broadcasting.

Admin · August 15, 2022, 7:57pm

aside from not having used DVD screenshots (it is a possibility), what else is incorrect?

Alleluja · August 15, 2022, 8:06pm

Simply, I would like to know the actual image quality.

Admin · August 15, 2022, 8:42pm

He writes widescreen, like a very good VHS

Alleluja · August 16, 2022, 2:49am

Thank you, Sebastian.
But he used the exactly same description about the image quality for " Domani passo a salutare la tua vedova… parola di Epidemia".

I suspect that he made a copy and paste mistake.
As the recent released DVDs from True Grit / Cargo Movies are very expensive, I’d like to know exactly about the image quality is for reference on whether to buy it or not.

Admin · August 16, 2022, 6:30am

yes they are horribly expensive… well, you can always go by some of the comments on Amazon which suggest that the image doesn’t look too bad

Admin · August 31, 2023, 10:02pm

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Mickey13 · November 2, 2024, 4:53pm

Copied from the Spagvemberfest 2024 thread:

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Though film’s storyline about a group of farmers getting terrorized by well-off ranchers is not particularly novel, the movie feels slightly different for a number of reasons: firstly, the settlers are far from being defenseless victims, being ready to have recourse to underhanded tactics to get their own way, e.g. forcing a marshall to sign a document under the threat of being gunned down. Secondly, it is tough to tell who is supposed to be the leading man here in virtue of the character of the deputy marshall turning out rather ambiguous along the line.

Even if the said ambiguity is subsequently clarified in the final act, this introduces quite a bit of variety and adds a pleasing element of surprise in the midsection. Glenn Saxson’s imposing presence additionally carries the part, his somewhat snide disposition going particularly well with his role’s general properties. Gordon Mitchell puts on a great show as well, this being possibly one of his finest appearances in the history of the genre. Though production values are predictably on the cheap side, what with Lallo Gori’s lovably cheesy score and gravel pits galore, Brescia renders the material with adequate focus and verve with most action sequences coming out galvanizing enough. At the end of the day, even if the work is inferior to Brescia’s Days of Violence, it still packs a punch for a relatively undistinguished project.