Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.
Piggy is a quietly unsettling Spanish horror-drama anchored by a raw, committed lead performance from Laura Galán, who carries the film's moral ambiguity with remarkable nuance. The premise — a fat-shamed teenager complicit by silence in the fate of her bullies — offers genuine thematic weight around victimhood, desire, and guilt. The cinematography is competent and captures the oppressive summer heat of rural Spain but rarely elevates beyond functional. The plot is engaging but somewhat uneven in pacing, and the ending, while appropriately ambivalent, feels slightly undercooked in its final beats. Novelty is moderate: it blends folk horror and social commentary in an interesting way, but the genre territory isn't entirely fresh.