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★★★★
“Coming-of-age meets coming-of-rage”
– Amber Wilkinson / Eye For Film

★★★★
“A more grounded, tragic version of The Craft”
– Chad Collins / Dread Central

“Mixes elements from Y Tu Mamá También and Carrie into an original, and stylishly low-key pressure cooker”
– Kurt Halfyard / Screen Anarchy

“Reimagines Mariana Enríquez’s gothic tales as a blend of folk horror, social drama and a dark exploration of adolescence”
– Martin Kudláč / Cineuropa

“Unusual, genre-fusing film: a would-be summer romance that is repeatedly shaken from its languid, lovestruck daze by stark, uncanny surges of violence.”
– Guy Lodge / Variety

★★★★
“A lot like two other festival favorites morphed into one uncomfortable, horror-adjacent package. The Virgin [of the Quarry Lake] has the oppressive and bleak rurality of Carlota Pereda’s 2022 festival favorite (and eventual Goya Award winner) Piggy alongside the subtle yet insidious sexual pressure of Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex — [It] is as harrowing as it is horrifying. —
Contextually, The Virgin of the Quarry Lake is folkloric coming of age rendered terrifying, with pin-point craftsmanship, especially from the director of photography Diego Tenorio Hernández, whose sweeping summer vistas are at once inviting yet tyrannical.”
– Chard Collins / Dread Central