“Meat Kills” (** out of four) was a pretty empty Dutch horror comedy about a young woman (Caro Derkx) who films a pig farm’s cruelty in order to join an animal activist group; upon finding that the pigs are all dead, the leader of the group (Sen Ben Yakar) enacts bloodthirsty revenge on the farm leader (Sweder de Sitter) and his children leading to a bloody battle to the death for them all. First Dutch film to be rated NC-17 certainly doesn’t spare you any in-your-face blood and gore but it becomes numbing after a while. Highly influenced by early Peter Jackson (particularly “Bad Taste” and “Dead/Alive”) but lacking his nimble and macabre touch.

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