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Piñata

by Leopoldo Gout

An ancient curse follows a family home from Mexico.

About Piñata

Carmen Sanchez brings her daughters to Mexico while she renovates an old abbey, hoping to reconnect them with their roots. When hidden artifacts are unearthed, something malevolent awakens and follows the family back to New York.

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Darkness
Dark
Pacing
Balanced
Content warnings
  • beheading-mentioned
  • body-horror
  • bug-horror
  • child-abuse
  • child-death
  • christianity-catholicism
  • colonialism
  • colorism
  • curses
  • creepy-children
  • crossing-the-mexican-american-border
  • drug-use
  • femicide-mentioned
  • gaslighting
  • genocide-of-indigenous-peoples
  • human-trafficking
  • kidnapping-mentioned
  • desecration-of-sacred-beliefs
  • possession
  • poverty
  • murder-mentioned
  • mutilation-mentioned
  • racism
  • rape-mentioned
  • side-character-death
  • slave-labor
  • supernatural-horror-and-violence
  • torture-mentioned
  • victim-blaming
  • violence-against-women-mentioned
  • misogyny
  • religious bigotry

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