Director – Pablo Pares, Screenplay – Maxi Ferzzola, Story – Hernan Moyano, Pablo Pares & Hernan Saez, Producers – Leonardo Giuliano, Pablo Pares & Simon Ratziel, Photography – Matias Rispau, Music – Pablo Fuu, Visual Effects – Andres Borghi, Pablo Pares & Marcelo Yanez, Special Effects – Promania, Makeup Effects/Prosthetics – Simon Ratziel, Art Direction – Amanda Nara. Production Company – Hydra Corp.
The all-girl band Pussy Cake and their manager Pato are returning from a concert when their van breaks down. They return to town but find all the places familiar to them are deserted. They are then attacked by zombie creatures, including zombified versions of people they know. They flee and try to stay alive. However, Juli has become infected.
Pussy Cake was the fifteenth film directed by Pablo Peres. Peres started out as co-director of Plaga Zombie (1997), which has proven popular enough that it has produced three sequels. Peres followed as co-director of Never Attend These Types of Parties (2000), Jennifer’s Shadow (2004) and Post: The Complete Adventure (2010), before making a solo directorial outing with the SF film Filmatron (2007). On his own, Peres subsequently went on to direct the genre likes of Never Attend These Types of Parties Again (2010), Daemonium: Soldier of the Underworld (2015), I Am Toxic (2018), Marisa and Giomoso (2023) and Doctor Cerebro (2024), as well as several works that fall outside the horror field and into comedy and adventure.
The set-up of four girls in a rock band who get waylaid into a horror scenario reminds of something of the Canadian-made Spare Parts (2020), which was made around the same time. It gives Pussy Cake a solid enough scenario, particularly for a 2020s Girl Power film. The four girls strike up a reasonable screen energy and Pablo Peres throws us into the midst of things happening where everything gets fairly gory in short course. It becomes a typical, albeit small-scale, Zombie Film with a good deal of running around the town. The creatures are not exactly zombies – there is no flesh eating but lots of burbling and infecting people with a milk-like vomit.
Members of Pussy Cake – (l to r) Maca Suarez and Aldana Ruberto – vs the zombies
Pussy Cake is also a film where it is extremely confusing trying to work out what is going on. Girl band return from a concert, the van goes dead. They wander into the town, their hometown, to find it deserted and encounter people they have known turned into frothing zombies. There is really not a lot of explanation about the set-up beyond that.
There is some talk in the prologue about the scientist’s son restarting his father’s experiments to open a portal and that he might have opened up the multiverse. The nearest assumption you can make is that the characters have somehow slid into an alternate timeline or reality. That still gives no explanation of what the zombified characters are or who the scarlet masked and hooded character with assorted weapons attachments that turns up to fight the zombies, who is referred to on the credits as Cazador (Spanish for Hunter), is meant to be. It is frustrating when a film does so little to explain anything.
