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Piggy - Carlota Pereda 2022

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“What's this, Sara? What's this blood, Sara?”

Cerdita (2022), dir. Carlota Pereda

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Piggy (2022) dir. Carlota Martínez-Pereda

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Cerdita (Piggy) [2022] Carlota Pereda

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PIGGY | FILM REVIEW

Piggy (2022) ★★★★

Horror/Thriller, 1h 30m

Dir. Carlota Pereda

Cast: Laura Galán, Adrian Grösser, Carmen Machi, Julián Valcárcel, José Pastor, Irene Ferreiro, Camille Aguilar, Claudia Salas & others

Summary:

A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger. (Letterboxd)

My review:

Horror and I still aren’t always the best of friends but when this finally got on my radar, I knew I had to check it out. I was ready to see an overweight person be the main character and not some awkward joke, and I was not disappointed.

I liked how the film dealt with Sara (Galán) being fat. As mentioned above, she wasn’t overweight to be some kind of joke for the audience to laugh at. There’s a whole lot of fatphobia present but it’s always the other characters laughing at Sara and never an invite for the audience to laugh along (and if they do, it feels incredibly misplaced). Instead, the audience can feel for Sara and get behind the pent-up anger in her. Despite the bullying, we get to see her be a person who is just going through her every day life, hips swinging to music and going for a swim on a hot day, and as a plus-sized person myself, it felt refreshing to see this kind of representation, and it’s crazy how rare it is for a bigger character to be displayed as merely human.

Naturally, that’s not all the films deals with, though it is a central topic. Piggy doesn’t shy away from being quick with murder and plenty with blood and gore. It’s never over-the-top (though content warning for vegetarians: a lot of it takes place in a butchery) but just uses enough to keep the audience on its toes. What I especially liked was how a lot of the time, the audience is left clueless as what is about to happen or has happened. We’re often being mislead and the story takes sudden turns you don’t fully expect. It tends to give the audience an idea of what might be going on through Sara’s mind only to then completely turn it around.

That can, however, also be its weakness, depending on what you want the ending to be. Every viewer can have a different feeling with who should die and what should happen but personally, I think the ending was just right. I definitely believes the majority of the characters were horrible but asking the constant “but did I want them to die?” question actually gets exhausting by the end. On top of that is the main villain not very easy to figure out, leaving quite a bit to the audience’s interpretation. Nevertheless, a great horror movie that takes the “pig” insult to a whole other level.

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Laura Galán as Sara in Carlota Pereda’s Piggy

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Piggy (2022) dir. Carlota Pereda

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This is amazing.  She made it into a full length film, but the short is so powerful and striking.

Fuck bullies.  Hard.  Sans lube.

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Cerdita (Piggy)

Regia – Carlota Pereda (2022) Torniamo a parlare di horror spagnolo, sempre foriero di grandi soddisfazioni, e cominciamo subito col dire che, nella mia top 20 di fine anno, che sarà enunciata (insieme a quella di Marika) nell’episodio speciale di Nuovi Incubi, rischio di avere la bellezza di due film provenienti dalla Spagna. Il primo è diretto da un colosso del cinema del terrore europeo…

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Laura Galán

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[Fantasia 2022] A Complicated Web of Societal Violence in PIGGY

[Fantasia 2022] A Complicated Web of Societal Violence in PIGGY

Piggy (2022) Directed & Written by Carlota Pereda Starring Laura Galán, Claudia Salas, Carmen Machi, Pilar Castro, Camille Aguilar, Mabel del Pozo, Richard Holmes, & José Pastor. Drama / Horror / Thriller ★★★★1/2 (out of ★★★★★) DISCLAIMER: The following essay contains significant spoilers. Turn back, lest ye be spoiled! Bullying is a difficult topic to tackle in fiction because it usually either…

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Piggy - Carlota Pereda 2022

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31 Scary Movies in March Day Four: Piggy

Piggy features a young woman who is shamed for her body by some bullies and has to decide what to do when she sees them get abducted by a stranger. The Stranger seems sympathetic and horrifyingly affectionate towards her, and she has to struggle between telling the police what she saw or keeping it quiet. 

You can really feel the urgency of both sides. And that really makes the story all the more tense, because what will she end up doing?

Sara and Asun, the main character and her mother, are by far the standouts in this movie. They both played very believable characters. 

Other than that, I really do not know what to say about this movie. It’s really slow in some places, and really intense in others. There are some parts I really didn’t like and some I did. It does end up paying off when she ends up going to find the girls. And that sequence is very tense and terrifying. 

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"Piggy"

A coming-of-age thriller that's as compelling as it is gruesome, and this tale of revenge, morality, and desire is one that I won't soon forget.

Adolescence at its most brutal is laid out in a both spectacular and understated fashion in “Piggy,” writer – director Carlota Pereda‘s intense, provocative feature film that expands on her 2018 short, “Cerdita.” I am completely in love with everything about this film, from its unlikely heroine to the visual style to the disturbing script. Sara (Laura Galán), overweight and bullied because of…

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Arrow Frightfest 2022 Film Review - Piggy (2022)

Arrow Frightfest 2022 Film Review - Piggy (2022) Another chance to read @bradleypeoples1 review for #piggy just shown @FrightFest #FrightFest #horror @VertigoRel

Carlota Pereda‘s punishingly personal feature debut explores heartless body shaming and the small town big hell of a Spanish teenager caught in the headlights of a hulking serial killer. Butcher’s daughter Sara struggles with her weight and is constantly bullied and abused by the locals and her bitchy peers. The repellent harassment is both verbal, “Piggy” and “Miss bacon“, and physical. The…

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Piggy (2022)

by Carlota Pereda