Piggy - Movie Reviews (2025)

...a consistent vulnerable canvas of pain and rage that should be enough to make even the hardest audiences sit back and consider the kind of pressure we place on ourselves and others to fit our ideas.

Full Review | Aug 4, 2024

While this film is gruesome, what I love about it is how Pereda deftly subverts what you expect from a slasher film. She uses the genre to explore further themes of bullying and self-worth.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2024

Piggy's first act is stupendous. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 19, 2023

Pereda doesn’t dive into the culture’s toxic standards of beauty, which would have been a great addition to an exploration of a misogynistic and fatphobic culture.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2023

Carlota Pereda takes advantage of the terrific lead performance from Laura Galán and delivers a shocking, violent, and frighteningly grounded story about bullying, fat-shaming, and self-acceptance.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 23, 2023

Carlota Pereda makes this with great skill as Sara reckons with how far she’s willing to go to stop the bullying.

Full Review | Mar 13, 2023

Carlota Pereda’s film uses outright pulp horror to emphasise the everyday horrors of teenage cruelty.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2023

As the coming-of-age horror becomes the blood and gore of horror movie violence, it makes the choice Sara must ultimately make that much more powerful, with an ending that should inspire spirited discussion.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2023

While this intelligent Spanish slasher gleefully sloshes on the high-tension splatter, it also delights in inverting generic tropes, dishing up a lip-smacking level of moral complexity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2023

Piggy manages to be incisively socially conscious, a stark meditation on cruelty, silence, and retribution.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2023

There’s an atmospheric, unsavoury oiliness to the cinematography and an uncomfortable tussle of sympathies – director Carlota Pereda shows real promise as a genre film-maker.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2023

Piggy presumably aims to test our sympathies, but just forfeits them entirely, in the service of a facile plot and a heroine even the film itself can’t seem to stand.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2023

Piggy’s avoidance of shallow and didactic reflections on body size mark it out as a real treat.

Full Review | Jan 5, 2023

The slasher style, small-town naturalism and nods to 70s horror are quite memorable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2023

Tender moments are rare in Piggy, but at its most vulnerable, the film can be as disarming as it is twisted.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2022

Pereda isn’t afraid to make us laugh, push us into the throes of revulsion or yank our chain – hard, all the way to the end.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2022

Carlota Pereda‘s Piggy created a horror movie where the big girl was not the side character, the first one to die, or a flat character at the heart of every joke.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2022

One of those films that's so consciously extreme, disfigured, and shocking that it's almost impossible it'll generate a unanimous response, even within the same person. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2022

Cathartic and in no way soothing.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2022

The mix of genres is very successful. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Oct 26, 2022