The hero is not at all a cute and harmless creature.
Pigs often became characters in children’s fairy tales. Chubby pink creatures with a funny piglet are associated with something sweet and kind. But one fairy tale breaks all the usual patterns of perception.
In the 1920s, the famous poet and prose writer Lev Ostroumov wrote an amusing work called The Wolfhound Pig. The plot tells a chilling story about a pig that turned into a bloodthirsty vampire at night and began to take revenge.
If filmmakers took up the film adaptation of this horror, then they would get a horror with a mark of 18+. However, Soviet children were delighted with this book, because it was written in an easy and accessible language. A frightening plot seems funny and even dashing.
Here is what netizens write about the story:
“I just read this horror movie!”, “Poor pig, you can understand it.”
Even to impressionable adults, such a work seems like a horror. And Vladimir Milashevsky’s illustrations for the book are even more creepy.
