We continue a run of beautifully shot films that pack in a load of subtext under a veneer of horror. Although in the case of The Untamed, that horror comes from the action of its primary characters as they wrestle with their sexual appetites and the violence the repression and sublimation of those desires evoke. I mean, you can take out the Lovecraftian tentacled space alien and you’d have the exact same film. That’s right: this is a movie about a Lovecraftian space alien with an insatiable libido that becomes aggressive and hungry, and that NOT where the horror in this film lies. How about that?

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Cinema Dual (TEST SITE)

Examining a life through the media we consume. In other words, I’m reviewing all of my physical music media in alphabetical order, one day at at a time. Except when I don’t, as has been the case for the past few years. Still, we march onwards…Coffee essential, but not mandatory

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Hooptober 12.0 – The Untamed (2016)