Synopsis
The Untamed (La región salvaje, 2016) is a Mexican sci-fi drama laced with horror that you can watch online on iFILM. A meteorite falls in the backcountry near a small town, and something not of this Earth takes up residence in an isolated cabin. Close by, an ordinary-looking family is quietly coming apart: Alejandra, her brutish husband Ángel, and her nurse brother Fabián, whose secret is about to surface.
Into this tangle walks the enigmatic Verónica. She knows what the creature can do — it gives overwhelming pleasure, then exacts a price — and she leads the desperate toward it one by one. Director Amat Escalante shoots cold and offers no easy answers: the alien is really a way to talk about repressed desire, jealousy, and the hypocrisy of small-town morality.
This is uncompromising art-house cinema, not a monster ride — it took the directing prize at the Venice Film Festival. Best for viewers chasing unsettling, bodily, deliberately uncomfortable films that sit somewhere between parable and horror. Stream The Untamed (2016) online on iFILM.
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