Piggy (2022) poster
2022 · horror · thriller · drama

Piggy

Directed by Carlota Pereda1h 39m2022
ElsewhereIMDb6.216kRT91%Metacritic72TMDB6.6701
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.

Our read · Piggy (2022) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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What watching it is actually like.

You want brutal bullying revenge with queasy moral fog and Spanish dread.

ends ambiguousit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 15attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorechild perilcringe humiliationdrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if teen body horror and grim countryside tension will linger uncomfortably.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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