Sometimes my job sends me weird shit.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5265960/
The Untamed (2016)
98 minutes
Spanish w/English subtitles
Multi-genre film
So this was described to be as "Spanish erotic arthouse drama meets Cthulhu." It's not quitethat, but it is damn weird, but I'm not really sure who to recommend it to. Tentacle porn fans will be bored that there isn't enough shokushu. Fans of relationship drama will be wondering "wtf is tentacle porn randomly inserted into this movie?" And there isn't enough horror to satisfy most traditional horror fans. Like sex? The film depicts it as a vulgar, primitive and sordid habit that brings misery, pain and humiliation to all who indulge in it. I don't know how much of you would watch it, so sarcastic review and spoilers below:
Okay so there's this old couple in a wood that finds a space squid stranded after a meteorite crash, and despite common sense they rescue it and put it in a flimsy wooden shack in the back of their property. At some point they realize the huggable little avatar of Shub-Niggurath radiates a field of lust, as the shack is quickly surrounded by animals of every shape, size and description who spend their days outside it fornicating furiously. So the old couple get frisky and for whatever unguessable reason decide "Hey, I've always wanted to fuck something that could survive unprotected re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, let's see if the squid objects". Surprisingly the squid doesn't, but it's persnickety about it's lovers, and will only fuck you for so long before it gets tired of you and it let's you know this by deliberately injuring you. Instead of the couple thinking "Hey, maybe the space squid is bad news", they decide to introduce it to Veronica in what quickly becomes a sordid sort of self help cult. Squid procreation apparently relieves you of all anger, stress, anxiety and depression. But only for so long, and then you need to take another hit off the squid. So they keep finding broken people to give the squid some strange in the hopes that some day down the road the space squid will give them a pity fuck, instead of killing them or putting them in a coma.
Seriously this is a subplot of the film.
Most of the film, however, revolves around a married couple named Alejandra and her husband Angel, who is having a secret bisexual affair with her brother Fabian. He's also a jealous, raging alcoholic who ends up in prison after Fabian turns up near dead in a field. What does this have to do with the space squid you ask? Veronica is Fabian's girlfriend, and he's in a coma because he also likes squid sex. After meeting Alejandra, Veronica brings her and her two small children to the old couples farm with the intent to sedate her with 'special tea' to calm her enough to allow the squid to get busy and so indoctrinate her. Meanwhile her kids are running around a property near a forest with no supervision.
At some point when they're burying bodies the older man tells Alejandra his wife is in the hospital due to the squid, and that "the bodies are really piling up." And despite this no one still has the foresight to say "Hey, maybe we should stop fucking the space squid!" It's all played dead seriously with every main character an empty eyed zombie who looks like they're sleep-walking through life. Most of this you learn via anecdote or exposition. It's just plain odd.