The Untamed

Name: The Untamed
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: July 21, 2017
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Andrea Peláez, Bernarda Trueba, Eden Villavicencio, Fernando Corona, Jesús Meza

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: July 21, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrea Peláez, Bernarda Trueba, Eden Villavicencio, Fernando Corona, Jesús Meza, Kenny Johnston, Oscar Escalante, Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio

Summary: Young mother Alejandra is a working housewife, raising two boys with husband Angel in a small city. Her brother Fabian works as a nurse in a local hospital. Their provincial lives are upset with the arrival of mysterious Veronica. Sex and love can be fragile in certain regions where strong family values, hypocrisy, homophobia, and maleYoung mother Alejandra is a working housewife, raising two boys with husband Angel in a small city. Her brother Fabian works as a nurse in a local hospital. Their provincial lives are upset with the arrival of mysterious Veronica. Sex and love can be fragile in certain regions where strong family values, hypocrisy, homophobia, and male chauvinism exist. Veronica convinces them that in the nearby woods, inside an isolated cabin, dwells something not of this world that could be the answer to all of their problems. Something whose force they cannot resist and with whom they must make peace or suffer its wrath. [Strand Releasing]… Expand

Director: Amat Escalante

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Sep 17, 2016

The Untamed does that very rare thing in cinema in that it blends mystery, horror and pseudo-reality with a kind of dark subconscious arousal. Read full review

Keith Watson

Jul 14, 2017

Each brief glimpse of the creature’s fleshy, slithering mass imbues the character drama with an aching sexual desire and, as the violent potential of the entity becomes clear, a mounting sense of dread. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Sep 17, 2016

Rather than use his trademark raw style to expose and eviscerate social injustice, here Escalante puts it in service of a kind of cautionary fable about both the healing power of sex and the harming power of sexual hypocrisy, and he uses a tentacled alien to do it. Read full review

John Bleasdale

Sep 17, 2016

The Untamed is an examination of the strange otherworldly nature of desire, the way sex is often out of joint with our desires and expectations, even with our identities. Read full review

Danielle White

Jul 26, 2017

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Jul 21, 2017

It’s a low-key trippy sci-fi movie about booty calls with an unwieldy space squid, but I wish I could say it was much more than that. Read full review

Carlos Valladares

Aug 2, 2017

The unsure approach to rich material (based on a story about a newspaper’s homophobic coverage of a drowned man) mixes the sexy and grotesque — and cancels each other’s good parts out. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Nov 20, 2017

I'm not a fan of Escalante, his style is devoid of structure and just like he did with Heli, he tries to impact instead of provoke.
He basically did the same he did in Heli.

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qbase

Mar 24, 2019

Aυτό που παρουσιάζει ο Εσκαλάντε είναι μεν τολμηρό αλλά παραμένει ανολοκλήρωτο, αποκαλύπτοντας μόλις ένα μέρος αυτού του παράδοξου μυστικιστικού κόσμου...

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