The Untamed

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The Untamed

Released Jul 21, 2017

1h 40m

Drama

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A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.

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Critics Consensus

The Untamed attempts some ambitious tonal juggling between fantastical and disturbing -- and draws viewers in with its slippery, inexorable pull.

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David Stratton

The Australian

Perhaps horror isn't exactly the right word to describe this eerie, bloody, sexy movie.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 20, 2017

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

[Amat Escalante's] film may lack the subtlety of Val Lewton's famously allusive RKO chillers, but there's the same sense that the shadowy rooms braved by the characters are no less than the human psyche itself.

Sep 7, 2017

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Jonathan Romney

Observer (UK)

Despite the avowed debt to Andrzej Żuławski's famously disturbing 1981 film Possession, this is bracingly individual stuff. Just don't expect to touch calamari again in a hurry.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 20, 2017

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Paul Kanieski

KSQD Community Radio

The Untamed is a near-perfect psychosexual drama disguised as a creature feature.

Jul 25, 2023

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

The Untamed uses its sci-fi premise to explore grounded notions of masculinity, sexual repression and the all-consuming allure of unbridled sex to great effect.

Rated: 4/5

May 6, 2022

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

The Untamed is a deeply unsettling and sometimes confounding watch. Escalante doesn't quite stick the landing, but there's plenty here for viewers to sink their tentacles into.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 4, 2022

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Korra N

Erotic, intense & gripping, The Untamed is a brilliant Spanish-language thriller that's actually bold & unflinching, taking a few leaps that too many filmmakers wouldn't dare to.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/16/25

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Tom L

The Untamed is quite an original and compelling film. An interesting exploration of human sexuality against a backdrop of rural Mexico, with science fiction and body horror in the mix. There are hints of Lovecraft with a creature that descends in a meteorite from space, although the prudish author from Providence would have never approved of the graphic sexual pleasure the creature delivers to its “victims.” Enough is left unexplained to maintain an atmosphere of the weird to the ambiguous conclusion, but there is enough substance to the plot to keep one engaged until the end.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/25

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Simina M

Who writes movie infos on this website?? They don't watch the movies!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/28/24

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Damien B

UNTAMED might be a very strange choice for viewing and as such it falls somewhere between SLITHER, THE EYES OF MY MOTHER, EARWIG, and BERBERIAN STUDIOS, in both pacing and the dark, nefarious characters and foreboding plot as it unfolds to reveal more than a few bizarre surprises. It is a fairly slow-paced film, which actually suits the atmosphere and the environment the lead female character finds herself enraptured with and encapsulated by. If you enjoy this, i would highly recommend following UNTAMED with PIAFFE, starring the same actress, who seems to fit into these morbidly skitzoid roles with ease and she aptly supplies the added panache needed to give it that crusty, cringy, earthy, rather coarse, eerie embodiment of whatever character she takes on and becomes in the process. She is very believable and well suited to this sort of dark and weird indie film format. Not for everybody, granted, yet she brings something undeniably unique and different to the table that really makes it work.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/27/23

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Hugo - Shudder F

A raw dissection of our most intimate repressions. "The Untamed" explores the darkness we are dragged into when we are not allowed to live our sexuality to its fullest. It is remarkable how sci-fi elements are used as a metaphor to deliver this erotic horror. Utterly risky and daring!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Morgan D

A gruesome look into the abuses and dark pleasures we allow because we fear being alone.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/28/22

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Synopsis

A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.

Director: Amat Escalante
Producer: Jaime Romandia
Screenwriter: Amat Escalante, Gibrán Portela
Distributor: Strand
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 21, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 17, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $27.1K
Runtime: 1h 40m

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