Piggy

I watched this as part of my ménage a un Shocktober season of horror films. Based on the description I thought this would be another rip-off of Carrie, but it far exceeded my expectations. Overweight, teenage butcher and hunter, Sara (played by Laura Galán) is bullied by her seemingly more attractive and popular classmates. She is nicknamed Piggy. After a chance encounter with an almost mute maleweirdo at the swimming pool her classmates start to go missing. This isn't a film for the ages like Halloween or Dawn of the Dead. It is a violent slasher film bordering on the torture * subgenre of films like Wolf Creek and Calvaire (The Ordeal). The film captures the mentality of small town gossip. The film is helped immensely by some effective cinematography that captures the Spanish countryside and convincing acting. Laura Galán could be one to watch for the future, but how many times have we said that? Jamie Bell, anyone? Well worth a watch as a shocking, effective horror, but doesn't innovate.

With the summer sun beating down on her rural Spanish town, Sara hides in her parents' butcher shop. A teenager whose overweight makes her the target of incessant bullying, she runs away from a band of capricious girls who torment her at the town pool, only to find them being brutally kidnapped by a stranger, who drives off with them in his van. . When the police start asking questions, Sara is silent. Intrigued by the stranger - a mutual interest - she is torn between revealing the truth and protecting the man who saved her. Adorable, a Spanish horror thriller out of the box, French and Spanish cinema standing out in the latest productions, the excellent script, revenge is never full, I love revenge, especially when the evil of the century enters the scene, bullying, disgusting and angry , especially Laura Galán, does wonderfully well... A simple script, wonderfully efficient, plausible, bloody, exaggerated, very good, worth every drop of blood... Perfection...