Movie Review: PussyCake (2022)

Written by Maxi Ferzzola, and directed by Pablo Parés, Pussycake is an Argentinian horror film about a female rock group that breaks down in the wrong place at the wrong time on their way to the last gig on tour. They end up in a science experiment gone wrong instead and have to fight for survival. It begins with a kid missing his father and messing around on his computer with a machine that creates a portal, and things go terribly wrong from there. Maca Suárez (The Accused), Anahi Politi (Crystal Eyes), and Flor Moreno (The Talking Guts) star alongside newcomers Aldana Ruberto and Sofia Rossi.

The film is natively in Spanish with English subtitles. For being an indie film, the acting was actually pretty good. It mainly follows the girls in the band, and they were all pretty solid actors. The cinematography was pretty good most of the time. There are a lot of great shots in there that more than make up for any shortcomings in the camera department, and we could even see some definite appreciation for films like Evil Dead and Raimi’s style mixed in there.

What really makes this film isn’t any of the aforementioned elements, though. It’s those combined with the insane amount of gore. PussyCake has an absurdly good amount of gore. We would say it’s one of the goriest indie films we have had the pleasure of watching. And it’s not just gory for the sake of being gory. It’s gory when it needs to be, which just happens to be all the time.

Overall, we would definitely recommend this to indie horror fans, sci-fi horror fans, or just horror fans in general. It’s one of the best efforts we have seen from an indie film.

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Check out the trailer below!