Squealer 2023
When young women begin to disappear across a small town, a police officer and a street-smart social worker follow clues to a remote pig farm and discover the local butcher has been bringing his work home.
Cast
- Wes Chatham as Jack
- Ronnie Gene Blevins as Theodore (“Squealer”)
- Katherine Moennig as Earline
- Graham Greene as Joe
- Theo Rossi as Danny D.
- Tyrese Gibson as Officer Paul
Review
Squealer gets off to a hot start. A nude woman crashes through a wall. As she tries to flee from an unknown pursuer, she is hit by a couple driving an RV. Somehow, she survives – only to get hit by a dump truck a few minutes later. The fact that the movie is inspired by true events makes it all more engaging. The plot follows a social worker named Lisa (co-writer Danielle Burgio, Army of the Dead) who stumbles across the work of a serial killer. It turns out he is a butcher who takes his work home.
Regrettably, the film is unable to live up to any of its promise. The tone set in the opening moments is replaced with one similar to a low budget action movie that would be found on late night premium cable in the 1990s. The cast are good looking, there is plenty of (female) nudity, and the action scenes are straight and to the point. There is none of the grit that the premise requires.
