The Untamed – 2016 – Mexico
This movie has some seriously bad vibes, man. The Untamed explores several themes (addiction, abusive relationships, self-destructive behavior), and all of them are depressing. Everything about the movie is unpleasant and grotesque, and this is reinforced with lots of subtly unsettling imagery. There is a slimy, tentacled alien, but some of the mundane images are just as gross. A man lays half-submerged in a muddy people. A kid scratches at a rash on his face after he has an allergic reaction. A big heap of meat sits on a counter. I hated all of it, but somehow I still liked this movie.
A scientists finds an alien inside a meteorite and keeps it in his barn to study. Even though the alien looks gross, people and animals all inexplicably want to have sex with it. Under the supervision of the scientist, several people bang the alien. They become addicted and keep coming back even after the alien abuses them. Some of them die. In a related plot, a homophobic man cheats on his wife and starts a gay relationship with her brother. When his lover is murdered by the alien, the man is falsely accused of the crime, which tears his family apart.
The Untamed ends really suddenly with no resolution. Perhaps the ending suggests that there is no escaping the addictive, abusive love of the alien. I’m saving the weirdest, most grotesque part for last. In one scene, a whole bunch of animals have an orgy. Turtles, ducks, lizards, cows—all of them are just going wild. It’s really shocking.
There is a lot of nudity in this movie. If you want to see some graphic sex in a dirty barn with a tentacled alien, this is the movie for you.
Rating: 7/10 Shrunken Heads
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