Piggy
Still from Piggy.

Piggy

classified 18 S
Film

Please note: This was screened in Jan 2023

Director
Carlota Pereda
Cast
Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi, Irene Ferreiro, Camille Aguilar
Details
98 mins, Subtitled, 2022, Spain
Primary language
Spanish

It’s time for sweet, sweet revenge on the bodyshamers in this darkly fun Spanish horror that sees a bullied overweight teen witness her tormentors get abducted by a mysterious stranger.

Sara (Laura Galán) is the shy daughter of the local butcher in a dusty village, relentlessly bullied by the mean girls for her weight. But when a twist of fate recasts her as an accomplice to a kidnapper who is targeting her bullies, we see precisely what a lifetime of victimisation has stoked within Sara, who is plunged into a morally ambiguous spiral of threat and complicity…

By turns shocking, tender and morbidly funny, director Carlota Pereda’s never exploitative femme-focused film never makes the safe or obvious choice, announcing a brave new female voice in horror.


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