This Mexican-international co-production has been a festival favourite, and it is both intriguing and oddly absorbing. With echoes of Andrzej Zulawski's Possession, a tentacled creature comes to Earth via a meteorite and is kept at a couple's isolated rural home, telepathically attracting emotionally troubled people and delivering extreme sexual fulfilment, sometimes with severe consequences. Following the sexually tangled relationship between volatile Angel, his wife Alex, her brother Fabian and the mysterious Veronica who enters their lives, the film has an hypnotically strange feel, through steady pacing, unexpected juxtaposition of extreme shot types and curiously-placed sound elements. The creature scenes are brief but impactful and well-realised for the budget. Not all questions are resolved, and The Untamed will not be to everyone's taste, but it is a curious and interesting experience overall.
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