Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Amat Escalante’s horror-fantasy The Untamed on the eve of its screening at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Variety reports.
The Untamed, titled La Region Salvaje and set in Guanajuato, had its world premiere at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and was then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. Escalante won the Silver Lion at Venice for Best Director. Strand is planning a late-summer release.
In it, a couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.
The movie was inspired by two tragic incidents that Escalante read in the papers in Guanajuato, leading to a strange unique tale that intertwines the bits of true crime with an other worldly experience.
