HOGS
Short Horror Screenplay
In 1930’s rural Iowa, 16 year old Ruth is traded into marriage with an elderly hog farmer desperate for a son. Upset her new husband sees her as no more than livestock for breeding, Ruth becomes pregnant by an opportunistic farmhand. Upon discovering the pregnancy, the farmhand murders her husband to take the farm. Things take a turn when the murdered man’s estranged brother shows up to claim both the farm -- and Ruth. To survive, Ruth will have to fight the men around her to prove she’s not just livestock.