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What is Piglet About?
Piglet is a “cabin in the woods” slasher about a man in a pig mask, the guy who controls him, and the group of women who picked the wrong place to throw a birthday party.
For her 21st birthday, Kate, her sister Susie, and Susie’s friends rent a cabin for a weekend getaway. Kate is mentally recovering from an abusive relationship, and their friends don’t all get along, so the atmosphere of the celebration isn’t great. It gets much worse when a huge man who has recently escaped from custody returns home to his controlling brother. The brother, Mr. Hogarth, owns the cabin Kate and her group are staying in, and he and the huge pig-mask-wearing murderer have some violent plans in mind for their stay.
Andrea M. Catinella (the upcoming Hook and Mouseboat Massacre) directed Piglet based on a script by Harry Boxley (Mouse of Horrors, Popeye’s Revenge). Alina Desmond (Freddy’s Fridays) stars as Kate, and Shayli Reagan (Mouseboat Massacre) plays Susie. Susie’s friends are played by Lauren Staerck (Cinderella’s Revenge), Alina Varakuta (the upcoming Bikini Shark), and Valery Danko (Cinderella’s Revenge). Also featured are Alexander Butler as Piglet and Jeremy Vinogradov as Mr. Hogarth.
Piglet Review
First things first. Despite the character of Piglet using the same style of mask as the Piglet seen in the first Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey from 2023, they are not the same character. The two movies are not related to each other besides the fact that they share a few producers and a distributor. Also, the pig mask used in both of those movies is one that can be bought online (you can find the first Pooh mask from Blood and Honey on that site as well), so we might see it pop up in more slashers in the future.
Also, Piglet might seem like one of the many recent public-domain-inspired movies, but it really isn’t. Other than the killer being named Piglet, there is no discernible connection between the character in this movie and the character in A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories. This Piglet is just a guy in a mask, a mask that he chooses out of a basket of masks with different designs. If he chose the goat mask at the bottom of the basket, would he be called Goatlet? Maybe. It makes about as much sense as anything in this movie.
So, there is no connection between Piglet and A.A. Milne’s stories, nor is there a connection between Piglet and Blood and Honey, but this movie does feel like it draws inspiration from a couple of sources. One of those sources is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Piglet is a big guy wearing a mask and an apron, he’s not all there mentally, and he’s cannibalistic. Also, there are some much more direct references to TCM late in the movie—visually and through plot developments—but I suppose I’ll avoid the bigger spoilers.
Another movie Piglet seems to take inspiration from is… Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023). I know I said the movies aren’t connected, and that is true. However, the basic plot structure of Piglet is eerily similar to Blood and Honey in multiple ways. Both feature a female protagonist who is scared that a stalker from her personal life followed her to a cabin in the woods (and that plot thread doesn’t add much to either film). Both have people who are supposed to join the main group but get lost on their way to the cabin and end up dead by the hands of the killer. Both are structured around a group of women being killed during a similar weekend getaway. Both have a guy who is unknown to the women who tries to save them. Both movies end with a fiery car chase.
I mean, I know a lot of slasher movies end up being similar since there are just so many of them, but for a movie called Piglet that uses the same mask as another, more popular movie, you’d think they’d at least want to make a strong effort to create some distance between the stories. The Texas Chainsaw similarities make it slightly different from Blood and Honey, but they’re still just emulating something else. I’m not saying it was all intentional, but it’s strange, and it’s distracting.
From a technical standpoint, Piglet leaves a lot to be desired as well. In the opening scene where we get an exposition dump about Piglet’s background (which is described as something vaguely similar to Captain America’s super soldier serum origin, only for a murderer), a member of the film crew is clearly visible in a shot for a second. It also looks like the guy explaining Piglet’s story is reading from a cue card. This stuff happens, sure. It’s a low-budget movie. To be fair, it gets better, but it does make for an inauspicious start.
Believe it or not, there are a few positives in Piglet. The camerawork has its moments. Some of the shots are nice, and they help make Piglet look quite imposing. I also enjoyed the practical gore when it was used. Unfortunately, there is an overreliance on digital blood later in the movie, and it looks terrible. They could have done nearly the exact same shots of violence without the digital blood, and it would have looked better.
By the end of the movie, I was ready for it to be over. Stuff often happens in the story without much reason (like Kate miraculously discovering car keys in the most unlikely of places), character decisions are bizarre, and familiar tropes are thrown in just because. Thankfully, when the end finally comes, it is abrupt.
Piglet Rating and Recommendation
Star Rating: 1 out of 5
I can’t recommend Piglet. If you want to see a movie like this, watch Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey instead. It’s a better movie than Piglet.
Further Reading
- Bystanders Review: A Unique Twist on Revenge
- Don’t Make a Sound Review: Micro-Budget Slashing With Blood but Almost No Story
- Best Slasher Movies of All Time
- The Best/Bloodiest Slasher Movies From the 80s
- New/Upcoming Horror Movies
- Best and Worst Horror Movies of 2025
