The Untamed

Directed by Amat Escalante

Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante follows up Heli and Los Bastardos with the ferociously intelligent and brilliantly unsettling The Untamed. Alejandra is a 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 the 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. Mixing Lovecraftian science fiction with social commentary, the film takes inspiration from Zulawski’s Possession.

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Duration:
100 minutes

Translated title:
La región salvaje

Languages:
Spanish

Subtitles:
Full English

Country of origin:
Denmark, France and Mexico

Year of production:
2016