Meat Kills - The scoop and digest

Johan Paul de Vrijer writes and Martijn Smits (who also cameos at the beginning as Regie) directs the first Dutch horror to be rated NC-17.

As I know you care, the first film slapped with the same certificate was 1990 biopic Henry & June.

Although released as Meat Kills, title card is bizarrely Vleesdag (Meat Day).

The most literal English translation of Meat Kills is Vlees doodt.

Caro Derkx - Mirthe

Emma Josten - Nasha

Sweder de Sitter - Jonathan

Sem Ben Yakar - Ishmael

Tommy Zonneveld - Humphrey

Chardonnay Rillen - Donna

Bart Oomen - Jonas

Derron Lurvink - Jacco

Juliёtte van de Weerdt - Jerrienne

Summary

At Heerema's Piggery, Mirthe is caught recording activities on her phone and is fired by Jonas for breaking regulations.

She joins activist group Animal Army and after meeting its leader Nasha, they decide to break into slaughterhouse and free the pigs.

Once inside, there isn't an animal in sight and presume they've already been killed.

When Jonas' son Jacco turns up, he and his brother Jonathan are taken hostage.

Shit quickly spirals out of control, and a bloody fight for survival between both factions ensues.

Meat is murder

Premise is absolutely ridiculous, but the appetite of gore aficionados will be sated.

The influence of Hostel, Eden Lake and extreme French horrors such as Switchblade Romance are there for all to see.

Also, Jonas releasing pigs which eat Donna alive smacks of Hannibal (2001).

Jonas chases Humphrey in a tractor, chops up body and then guts Ishmael, ripping his insides out.

Mirthe bites off a huge chunk of Jonas' neck and kills him with a handheld circular saw.  She also extinguishes Nasha's light by firing a bolt into psychopath's foreheard.

Such irony.

To briefly explain, Nasha loses it when she learns that Mirthe was close to Jonathan.

Climax is so stupid, it's almost brilliant.

Bedridden for most of running time, wee lass Jerrienne gets up and finds the bodies of Jonas and Jacco.

Does she scream? Shed hysterical tears?

No.

Instead, after coming across Mirthe holding Jonathan's corpse, she takes a shotgun and blasts Mirthe in the back.

Jerrienne catches up and slits her throat with a meat cleaver.  As Mirthe dies, she hallucinates a pig.

Totally realistic, right?