There are some genuinely creepy moments spread out throughout the film due to its atmosphere and sometimes trippy imagery.
The moment in the opening sequence when Jake's desperately calling out to his grandson who's been carried away by the boar... and you hear the poor kid screaming in utter agony.
On paper a killer pig doesn't sound like a very frightening or convincing monster. But good lord does the movie show you otherwise, with the animatronic and puppet boars looking downright terrifying.
What also helps sell it is how much of The Juggernaut the boar is. Whatever is in front of it when it charges, it destroys, going through walls, windows, cars, and people like a cannonball.
As anyone who has dealt with wild boars can tell you, they really ARE just as vicious and dangerous as this movie portrays them as, and a boar the size of the one in the movie could easily amass the same kill count.
While not as scary as the Razorback, Benny and Dicko are plenty scary on their own, being a pair of psychopathic killers willing to kill or leave people to die in horrific ways just to cover up their crimes.
