Spanish teen slasher piggythemovie_ subverts the tropes at FantasticFest.
Ah, the teen summer slasher. Its tropes are some of the most familiar in horror cinema, whether it’s the hulking, shambling killer; the socially outcast protagonist; the love-to-hate-’em ensemble inevitably punished for their transgressions; the spooky scene in the water; and of course, the violently explosive ending.is the newest addition to the classic subgenre, even down to an ominous pool scene to kick things off.
Sara is living the life every teenager dreads. She has no apparent friends, spends afternoons working in her parents’ butcher shop, and is tormented by a trio of girls in town. A particularly harrowing incident at the local pool leads to a grueling walk home that just keeps getting worse, especially when she finds herself the sole witness to a brutal kidnapping – and her bullies are the victims.
What unfolds is a deeply honest and perturbing look at petty viciousness, teenage desire, and two very different causes of psychological scarring: receiving suffering, and inflicting it. Sara’s bullies are so perfectly loathsome that rooting for their survival is almost impossible, a trope that lesser horror movies have exploited for years, and to spectacular bloody ends. But Pereda is clearly not interested in shallow depictions of violence or cruelty, however gratifying they may be for an audience. There are no easy dichotomies here, no reductions to mere good and evil, heroes and villains, which makesas fascinatingly human as it is morally squirm-inducing.
Before its Fantastic Fest screening, Pereda proved herself a woman after my own heart by saying, “I hate when a director tells you about the movie right before you watch it, so I’ll just say this,” then oinking and leaving the stage. That confidence bleeds into every moment of
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