The untamed – la región salvaje

Film program, DK/FR/DE/MX/NO/SE 2017, 98 min., span. OV + engl. UT

By: Amat Escalante

With: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jésus Meza

A feminist horror movie in the tradition of Zulawski’s POSSESSION: Alejandra lives a frustrated life as a working wife and mother in provincial Mexico. Her husband Angel tries to suppress his feelings for Alejandra’s brother with massive chauvinism. But Alejandra’s life is turned upside down when the mysterious Veronica appears ‑ and grants her access to a strange creature beyond human imagination.