Perhaps horror isn't exactly the right word to describe this eerie, bloody, sexy movie.

[Amat Escalante's] film may lack the subtlety of Val Lewton's famously allusive RKO chillers, but there's the same sense that the shadowy rooms braved by the characters are no less than the human psyche itself.

Despite the avowed debt to Andrzej Żuławski's famously disturbing 1981 film Possession, this is bracingly individual stuff. Just don't expect to touch calamari again in a hurry.

The Untamed is a near-perfect psychosexual drama disguised as a creature feature.