If you loved My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, try The Untamed

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010 · dir. Werner Herzog

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The Untamed

2016 · dir. Amat Escalante

What they share

Theyboth carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Horror / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

surreal

What The Untamed is

A cracked satellite dish hums under a Mexican dry season sun. A wounded creature leaks iridescent fluid behind a locked shed door, its presence pulling at the seams of a failing marriage. Feels like body horror as arthouse tax audit.

If you loved My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, try The Untamed

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

The Untamed

What they share

What The Untamed is

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