Sara, the butcher’s daughter, hates small town life. By the bullying teens she is given demeaning nicknames, and she’s brutalized emotionally and physically. But when she witnesses a vicious stranger kidnapping her assailants… well, maybe she’s found a new friend. “[A]n instant horror classic.” –Sheri Flanders, Chicago Reader
Summers are brutal in this remote Spanish village, made even more so by Sara’s tormented adolescence. Overweight, hating her job at the butcher shop, she can’t even catch a break at the local pool, where the clique of popular teenage girls delight in making Sara’s life awful. They nearly drown her, steal her clothes, and leave her feeling less than dirt. All the while, a stranger observes, seemingly indifferent. Until he isn’t, abducting Sara’s tormentors and killing off various people in the village. Writer-director Carlota Pereda’s terrific horror film subverts the genre and leaves us wondering: what is worse? Murder? Or adolescence?
Director Biography
Carlota Pereda is a writer and director whose television work, short films and horror films are have won Goya Awards in Spain. She is the director of the short films “Las rubias” (2016) and “Cerdita” (2018), which was the basis for Piggy (2022); and the feature The Devil’s Tail (2021).
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