Piggy
classified 18 SPlease note: This was screened in Jan 2023
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.