Milez Das (Rohit Shivdas)’s review published on Letterboxd:
Folded into realm of desire, pleasure and destruction. The Untamed unfolds its structure around three characters as their lives start to slowly decay into the desires of the flesh that is its own beast.
Surreal and hypnotic are binded together to tell the story that brings in the violence presented along with the sexual pleasure that dominates in the forms of these two. Man and the alien are not really apart from their characteristics of sex and violence.
Alejandra and Ángel are a married couple with two children, their lives of desires and sex are hidden from each other. Ángel who plays the typical straight guy discriminating against Alejandra's brother who is gay while at the same time is having sex with him. Ángel's is dominant when it comes to Alejandra and aggressive when he is with her brother. Their lives are turned inside out when Verónica appears in their lives who part takes in the service of the creature and his hunger for both pleasure and destruction.
Director by Amat Escalante, The Untamed transfixes you from the first frame that leaves you with a face of shock and curiosity. The frames move along like a cold atmosphere surrounded with an effective tense nature.
There is a scene where Verónica tells Fabián that she needs the creature more that it needs her. The temptation for the required pleasure that gives these characters an arc that go through destruction of their own. Ángel's life reaches the tipping point while Alejandra finally discovers herself and her pleasure through her time with the creature. Verónica's character at times looked like a mixture of both the hunter and the prey who has crossed the line, her character felt inspired from Under The Skin.
Ruth Ramos as Alejandra and Simone Bucio as Verónica give an excellent performance. Ruth who plays her character closed in her domestic duties of obeying and caring but as the story moves we can see her taking control of what she is.
The Untamed brings in the mixture of horror, mystery and drama that unfolds in the dark line of sex, violence and destruction. It stands along Under the Skin yet it feels like something out of Carlos Reygadas's page. It is equally hypnotic and surreal. Amat Escalante shows when it really comes down no one is really that different from each other when it comes to their needs and it is really us that step into the path of much needed destruction at times.