Chona, la puerca asesina (1990) Poster

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8/10
Godzilla meets Peppa Pig!
fiq-yu8 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
This is quite the cult film. Wacky, corny, and sometimes played VERY seriously as to elicit laughter (and some terror for a few; it DID have a "War of The Worlds" reaction in Puerto Rico for quite a few elderly people who truly believed the mock news flash scenes in the movie were real) The mad scientist wants to control Puerto Rico, but the industrialist (Agrelot, as Don Rodriguez y Rodriguez) only thinks of how many yards of sausage casings he could make with the enormous piglet. The love interests have the most popular telenovela actor of the time (Osvaldo Ríos) and the most famous drag queen in Puerto Rico at the time (Antonio Pantojas) kiss on the screen. The hero (Nena Rivera as Cambucha) neutralizes the by-now skyscraper-sized piglet with the odor off her armpits. Ruth Fernandez sings "Gracias, Mundo" (her signature song, a Puerto Rican cultural equivalent of "What A Wonderful World") as the sign-off theme. The artisan (Alarcón) plays a Puerto Rican craftsman with a very thick Argentinean accent (on purpose). Cameos from real life newscasters and lucha libre wrestlers Logroño's own comedic roles, including the corrupt televangelist. There's even a "director's cut," which is really a misnomer because the director (Luis Molina Casanova) did the directing and editing as a favor to Logroño and jokingly regrets being associated with the piglet and having people remember it as his "masterpiece" (that "director's cut" is actually redone sound effects for Chona -which Logroño says took an eternity because he had to re-record the pig in a soundstage...) All of it filmed in black and white... which predated "Godzilla Minus One" by 33 years... In short, this is lunacy taken very, very seriously.
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9/10
A Comedy Gem from Puerto Rico
billad13 March 2005
Sunshine Logrono and the cast/crew from his legendary late-80s Puerto Rican comedy TV show "Sunshine's Cafe" came up with this short black and white movie which was first shown one night on the TV show's time slot. It was a friggin' hoot. There's really no way to describe this. It's definitely not meant to be good cinema and its general crappiness adds to its aura of weird goofiness. Logrono, Yasmin Mejias (who later became a politician) and the rest of the Sunshine's Cafe cast make this tale of a murderous giant pig one of the standouts in Puerto Rican comedic history. I only wish I'd taped it when it aired all those years ago.
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