Piggy (Perada 2022)
What a wonderfully different horror film! We love a film that is in dialogue with hegemonic gender norms, beauty standards, and audience expectations. Piggy evokes Haneke and Funny Games in tasking viewers with considering their own presumptions and responsibilities in watching a horror film. Fascinating! And with a exquisite performance by the lead actress Laura Galan, this film by Carlota Pereda is worth seeking out. We look forward to seeing what these talented folks do next.
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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
Piggy (Perada 2022)
TOPIC INDEX – Piggy  (Perada 2022) (times are approximate) 
0:30 – Introductions
5:00 – Film discussion begins
5:00 – marketing and expectations
9:00 – Spoilers begin
9:00 – fat representation
16:00 – sociology moment – Goffman and civil inattention
21:00 – aligning the audience with Piggy
25:00 – rape revenge films
30:00 – the killer
47:00 – anit-revenge?
53:00 – meat
1:02:00 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
1:09:00 – outro
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Keywords
horror, podcast, sociology, gender, bodies, fat, obesity, representation, foreign film, Spain, scopophilia, male gaze, meat, butcher, bull, bullying, complicity, food, menstruation, period, complicit, culpable