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Ending Explained In the conclusion of Swallowed, directed by Carter Smith, the protagonist finds herself trapped in a nightmarish situation. As she explores a mysterious house, she discovers unsettling secrets and encounters eerie supernatural occurrences.
Jul 16, 2022 · Follows two best friends on their final night together, with a nightmare of drugs, bugs, and horrific intimacy. Our review covers it all!
I think the ending also suggests that she didn’t actually have mental-health issues, or, if she did, they were easily solved by her escaping her marriage and efficiently managing her childhood trauma in a single scene. This rang really false to me.
Apr 17, 2023 · Bethany Lola. April 17, 2023. Swallowed is an agitating and tense queer horror which follows two childhood best friends as they try to smuggle drugs over the Canadian border. Director Carter Smith’s ( The Passenger) latest gnarly feature is full of tense nail-biting moments.
- A drug run goes off the rails.
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By Matt Donato
Updated: Jun 6, 2022 8:06 pm
Posted: Jun 5, 2022 8:41 pm
Swallowed had its world premiere at Overlook Film Festival, and currently doesn't have a wide release date.
When movies like Carter Smith’s Swallowed tease “body horror,” first instincts often assume something Cronenbergian or mutated like Brian Yuzna’s Society. What Smith reminds us is our bodies can be subject to horrors far more ordinary, which are subjectable scenarios some even choose. Swallowed incorporates digestive horrors like in Angus Sampson and Tony Mahony’s drug-running thriller The Mule or Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s Swallow — very uncomfortable, very recognizable gastro gross-outs. There’s nothing overly complicated since Smith uses chemistry and biology to remind us of our bodily fragility, both clever and limiting for audiences.
Swallowed follows Dom (Jose Colon) and Benjamin (Cooper Koch) on Benjamin’s last hurrah before becoming a gay porn star in Los Angeles. Jose Colon and Cooper Koch play their parts as flirty and adoring friends who’ve never crossed the barrier into relationship territory — Dom just wants to give Benjamin a going away present. Enter Alice (Jena Malone), the forceful drug trafficker who forces Dom then Benjamin to ingest baggies of some narcotic. A payday awaits the duo should they cross the Maine/Canada border with products undamaged and properly cleaned, but nothing is ever that easy..
Swallowed is an intimate descent into messy emotions, messier body horrors, and by-the-books tension as fates are sealed from the first act. Carter Smith never leans on representation as a crutch, navigating the natural complexities within the LGBTQ+ community and threats from ignorant outsiders. Still, Swallowed is downsized to a fault and that ne...
- Matt Donato
Jul 20, 2022 · Carter Smith's Swallowed (2022) is a fresh take on body horror, entwining it with queer themes that play out in integral, yet harrowing ways.
Jul 16, 2022 · The ending sees a scenario and final showdown that most audiences won't see coming, feeling like a Coen brothers film in the way that the events keep unfolding rapidly until the characters are taken to completely new places, both metaphorically and literally. The screenplay is extremely layered, with wacky surprises hidden within each peeled layer.
