It will be seven or eight years Had the idea to write and shoot something about Carlota Pereda. royal horror. He had watched Bong Joon-ho’s masterful “thriller” movie “Murder Memoirs” about the first Korean serial killer and, as they say, his head was cut into a thousand pieces. At the same time, I thought abouttyranny‘ as the engine of this story What I mean is How can I bring two ideas together? For one summer, Pereda went down to the town’s pool every afternoon and always saw a girl coming in alone and at the same time. “The idea of ’Little Pig’ came to mind when I was reading about the reasons why he did it and maybe Lovecraft,” the director recalls. award-winning short film and already today the feature film has become an exciting bombshell of Spanish horror cinema: a brutal reflection on the harassment of those who are different. blood, revenge and dark humorstarting with a small town girl exposed cruel bullying fat.
The film arrived in Sitges this Saturday and was screened out of competition and the ball of ‘hype’ was rolling relentlessly: it was the only Spanish film to be seen in the final film. sunday festival and a few weeks ago it won the best horror movie award for reference film. Austin’s Fantastic Festival. Earlier, the short film of the same name with Goya had already been made in 2018. “We are so grateful and excited. Like Lina Morgan,” Pereda laughs. “I’m very good, I’m having a lot of fun. It’s something that doesn’t always happen,” adds she. Laura GalanHe is a terrific protagonist of both short and feature films.
‘little pig’ exceptional in many ways. As we said, the story of Sara, a young woman harassed by her obesity, whose life will be turned upside down the day a mysterious man comes to town and kidnaps her tormentors. Will he take pity on them and help save them, or will he abandon them to their bloody fate in front of a madman thirsting for revenge? Genre cinema is a pure ‘cutter’ of ‘psycho-killer’ and sharp knives, but equipped with a strong political and feminist perspective. This breaks down the impositions of gender (and gender): zero saderotic magic from that traditional setting in deep Extremadura, a typical “slasher” for the villain, elevating the film from the local to the universal. And above all to the dictatorship of the normative structure, The macho cliché of ‘the last girl’The often sexy and poorly dressed young woman who confronts the villain in the final assembly.
Non-normative organizations
“There are people who are surprised and applaud our courage, because Sara went out for a long time in a bikini showing her body. How brave is that? Did anyone say they were brave when they saw a naked aunt on a lingerie ad poster?” Pereda asks. “I have no problem showing my body. Who could be bothered to see this? I want people to think about why they don’t like seeing a non-normative body like mine.. And the truth is, I look gorgeous throughout the movie. Is there a problem?” adds Galán, very charisma.
Shaped in the voracious and crazy world of the series he wrote and/or directed episodes of ‘Periodistas’, ‘El secreto de Puente Viejo’ or ‘Acacias 38’, Pereda declares himself as an insatiable movie fan and manages to have a lot of fun. anime with quoted Boon Jong-ho, Aleksandr Sokúrov or Claire Denis, or “the weirdest thing in Asian ‘gore’ cinema”. But in other cinematographies The female gaze in genre cinema getting bigger and more stimulating (Julia Ducournau, Rose Glass, Hanna Bergholm, Léa Mysius, an almost endless legion), which is not the case in Spain. Pereda, today, just a wonderful rare bird.
Genre filmmakers in Spain
“I’m not clear on why this happens: perhaps because there are female creators who have no interest in fantasy; perhaps because genre cinema requires more investment and depends more on men than women, they have not been trusted. And there are many women in the short film world with great genre work, like Monica Mateo or Virgin Oleaga. But then they couldn’t jump to feature length,” Pereda analyzes. “I am very proud of this Carlota kicked the barrier And I hope more women show up doing terror. And me and here in Sitges it’s scary to say, I can’t watch horror movies because I’m scared. The adrenaline you release makes me jealous… I’d rather do than see!” adds Galán, amid his winks and contagious laughter.