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The Untamed (2016)

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Horror Queers

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8854 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Strap in because we're discussing our first Mexican film and boy is it a doozy! We're going to be discussing all the internalized homophobia and tentacle alien monster sexcapades in Amat Escalante's 2016 film The Untamed! Join us as we try to figure out what the tentacle alien monster represents while lauding the film for its realistic (and graphic!) depiction of gay sex and then jump right into adding a new letter to the LGBTQIA acronym (someone alert GLAAD!). Plus: meat-eating as a sign of masculinity, the importance of breaking tradition, questionable police interrogation rooms and a crater of copulating creatures. Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners Trace: @tracedthurman Joe: @bstolemyremote Be sure to support the boys on Patreon!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning, afternoon or evening, and welcome to the bloody disgusting network.

0:10.6

The following show is just horrifying.

0:15.8

Beware.

0:20.4

The Sheriff, you're not cheating on your wife if you eat my lemon square.

0:33.4

Your lemon squares taste like ass.

0:37.1

Music Your lemon squares taste like ass.

0:45.6

And welcome back to horror queers.

0:47.8

We're talking peeing your pants.

0:50.3

We're talking toxic masculinity.

0:57.4

And we're talking a clearing full of animals fucking. And I'm Joe. And I'm Trace, and we're talking one horny tentacle monster. Oh, boy. So many tentacles. And they all look like

1:05.2

penises. It is a lot. I'm actually surprised it looks as good as it does because this looks like such a low budget film.

1:12.5

But everyone, we are discussing Amat Escalantes, The Untamed.

1:17.5

And, well, I can honestly say, Joe, I have never heard of this movie until you put this on the schedule.

1:23.9

Yeah.

1:24.3

Well, credit birth movies death, because that's actually where I first heard about

1:27.7

this when this film was still doing the festival circuit back in, I want to say, like, 2017 is when it was

1:34.8

doing it. But yeah, I fully read this, you know, capsule review that says, oh, here's this queer film

1:41.9

that's also got a tentacle monster in it. And I thought,

1:44.6

well, I'm fucking sold on that shit. Yes, absolutely. And y'all, because this is a smaller film,

1:50.0

it's not very well known. You won't find a ton of reviews for it. So we don't, but nevertheless,

1:53.8

we don't normally discuss streaming options on our episodes because it tends to date them immediately. And as you all know, streaming licenses can change on a day-to-day basis.

2:02.1

But if you're listening to this episode when it drops, you can find the untamed on Shudder

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