SFIFF Day 3, Ticket 2

Well, I'll just put a photo and the description and then explain why I walked out after 15 minutes.

The Untamed

Program description: A sensual, erotic, and often bizarre meditation on pleasure and destruction, The Untamed is a cinematic adventure not soon forgotten. Ángel is a difficult man who exerts grim control over his wife Alejandra, while conducting an affair with her brother Fabian. All three of these characters find their lives lacking, whether it be unfulfilling jobs, abusive and adulterous spouses, or challenging economic situations. So when a willowy stranger named Verónica enters their realm and brings them to a remote farmhouse where a creature that can bring otherworldly pleasure resides, the result will transform all of their lives. Taking a grand leap into the fantastical after the brute realism of his celebrated 2013 Heli, Escalante has crafted a uniquely unsettling intersection between sci-fi horror, allegory, and messily dysfunctional domestic drama. Though very different in style, The Untamed acknowledges (literally, in its closing credits) one clear predecessor—the late Andrej Zulawski’s 1981 cult favorite Possession, another portrait of a deteriorating marriage in which love is a many-tentacled thing.

The picture above is a girl laying down on a bed in the barn and the first scene is of her nude with the large alien snake leaving her body. The next scene is a woman being taken from the back by her bisexual husband and the third scene is her masturbating in the shower. There was a lot more sex after that too. It seemed excessive and sometimes the suggestion is better than watching the acts. There was an unkindness also to the sex especially with the wife. Her husband is more gay than straight and is having an affair with her gay doctor brother. Which we also get to graphically see, too graphic for me and I left.

Here is a trailer where the woman who first had sex with the alien is talking the doctor into having sex with the alien. .Click here for trailer

The director is Spanish and this was filmed in Mexico with a Mexican cast in Spanish.