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Emesis
PussyCake
Argentina 2021
produced by Leonardo Giuliano, Simon Ratziel, Pablo Parés, Lisandro Negromanti (executive) for Hydra Corp, Raven Banner
directed by Pablo Parés
starring Macarena Suárez, Aldana Ruberto, Sofia Rossi, Anahí Politi, Flor Moreno, Rodrigo Ferreyra, Amanda Nara, Diego Prinz, Paradise Kiss, Aquiles Veccho, Cristian Carbone, Demián Salomón, Ramón Caribe, Loli Boer
story by Pablo Parés, Hernán Sáez, Hernán Moyano, screenplay by Maxi Ferzzola, music by Pablo Fuu, special effects and prosthetics supervisor: Simon Ratziel
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A scientist (Aquiles Veccho) has opened a portal to another dimension
and disappeared through it - and when his computer wiz son (Diego Prinz)
re-opens the portal to haul him back, he instead grants access to
something completely else and much more sinister ...
In a seemingly unrelated story, struggling all-girl rock band PussyCake
(Macarena Suárez, Aldana Ruberto, Sofia Rossi, Anahí Politi) and their
manager Pato (Flor Moreno) arrive at a venue for their next gig ... only
to find the place closed and the whole neighbourhood completely deserted.
Pato tries to track down her local contact (Amanda Nara) to find him in a
zombie-like, highly homicidal state - and he's not the only one. Seems
there has been some zombie outbreak in town, and now or heroines must run
and hide - but their numbers are continuously thinned out be zombie
attacks. Sure, there's a "zombie hunter" (Rodrigo Ferreyra) on
the job, but he's even more dangerous than the zombies, shows no sympathy
at all towards our girls, and ultimately turns out to not even be human.
And that finds PussyCake between a rock and a hard place ...
Now what in my synopsis might sound like just another zombie flick is
actually a pretty original and fresh movie, starting with the fact that it
doesn't give a heed about established genre rules but makes up its own on
the go without ever trying to explain them away. Plus while the film's
dead serious in terms of story, it's very light-footed in approach, with
spots of (intentional) camp (like the girls wearing their fancy stage
outfits throughout) thrown in for good measure. Plus, the main characters
come across as believable and show at least some depth for the audience to
really care for them, and a solid small ensemble brings them to life
rather beautifully. And the result is a really fun genre ride for
sure.
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