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  Review by thedayofthedot ★★★★ 6

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I wanted Sara to go on a killing spree

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  Review by 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚 ★★★ 6

  I was expecting this to be yet another bullying victim gets revenge film but, although it takes that concept, it's more than that. They made a good job building up the suspense until the final act, and in the meantime we are introduced not only to Sara and her family but everyone and how bullying and body shaming are part of Sara's daily life and what she's been through, so by the end we can understand her choices. It's not a masterpiece but for something that could have easily been nothing new, it's okay.

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  Review by 🩸 c h r i s 🩸 ★★★★ 14

  How do you talk? Oink, oink, oink? 

  although this follows the exact same template as its short predecessor, Piggy or Cerdita takes an unconventional route completely separating itself from the “victim finally getting sweet bloody revenge on their tormentors” narrative while still maintaining that very uneasy feeling the short film was seeped in. combining coming-of-age romance meets dealing with your own moral compass. what’s worse, fighting off your tormentors or your inner demons?

  Carlota Peroda knew how to get her audience to react, not holding back on the cruel and constant torment someone has to endure because of her size—this packs a major punch when we have to listen to someone get called horrible names just because of how she looks, it…

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  Review by Matt! ★★½ 4

  This movie feels like it belongs smack dab in the mid-2000s, somewhere around the likes of Wrong Turn (2003), Wolf Creek (2005), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), etc. Grisly, sleazy exploitation horror (kind of?) that doesn’t really deliver on the tease of its blood-soaked poster, though not terrible in its tense atmosphere and intriguing setup. 

  The full length film continuation of a 2018 short created by and starring the same folks, Piggy sees an outcast overweight teenage girl bullied and left to fend for herself when she encounters a white knight/potential serial killer, leaving her with a morally ambiguous decision to make. 

  It’s definitely not terrible, but also not without a handful (maybe even truck-full)…

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  Review by ˚✧jayne˳✧༚ ★★★★

  hell truly is a teenage girl

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  Review by gowon thee stallion ★★★★

  a pretty solid revenge film. I really liked the actress who played sara. The bullies deserved it.

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  Review by DallasFrance ★★★ 2

  Piggy is based on a short film, and it shows. It’s a revenge film with a woefully underwritten lead character. Laura Galan valiantly plays Sara, but isn’t given much to do beyond being mercilessly bullied by her peers, relentlessly browbeaten by her mother, consistently doh-whatever-ed by her dad, and… defended (?) by… somebody. 

  There’s not much catharsis when our final girl barely gets to be a girl at all. I know these tales are often tropey and reductive, but when Sara is exposed to such a litany of abuses and humiliations in the first half hour, there’s gotta be more than ten to twelve sparse lines of dialogue to make her character arc feel earned. Sara’s most powerful act is not acting, and it’s just not enough in the end.

  
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  Review by Frankie ★★★½

  Oink oink motherfuckers

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  Review by nick ★★

  Piggy is a revenge story that's as confounding as it's morally ambiguous. Nothing about it excites or irritates me, except for its ending where too many loose ends remain unsolved.

  Body shaming is vile, and Piggy confronts it in the form of a gory thriller, while never providing the satisfaction its subgenre requires. Our protagonist Sara, an overweight teenage girl constantly bullies for her body, faces a moral dilemma when her bullies are kidnapped. The story obviously is far more unsubtle than its premise suggests, resorting constantly to genre tropes and cliches to push the narrative forward, despite its clear efforts to subvert the genre.

  For most of its runtime, Piggy is a mildly intriguing mystery-solving process with strong social…

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  Review by Morgan ★★★½

  They oinked their last oink.

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  Review by haley ★★★★ 4

  why was this lowkey kind of romantic?

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★½

  "Pity?" - Sara,

  - 2022 Ranked: boxd.it/eWNQo
  - Sundance 2022: boxd.it/f5MjG

  No bully!

  I can't wait to rewatch this film with a different set of expectations because it took me a little while to adjust to the movie's meandering pace and constant tempo and tonal changes. Once I did though I really liked it. It's a gritty, trashy, horror fest with a lot of moral implications to the story that are fun to play out in your mind. Great lead performance by Laura Galan,

  I had fun.