As with Kill Me Please, the use of oblique storytelling strategies gives Amat Escalante’s libidinous sci-horror flick a convincingly arty sheen. All you need to know going in is that a tentacled thing from another world is holed up in a barn, pleasuring (for the most part) its ecstasy-drunk human visitors. A young wife, her violently closeted husband, and her gay brother provide the narrative moves in a super-perverse setup that finally signs off with a killer punch line. Escalante’s film is wild and disturbing enough to hold its own in inevitable comparisons to Under the Skin and Andrzej Źuławski’s Possession, but if that’s what it takes to get you genre nerds into the theatre…

Georgia Straight, 2017