That's for sure."
Belonging to that rare sub-genre of the indie gay-themed horror-thriller, Swallowed starts off with a pair of best friends partying as one is about to leave for a career in the adult industry and the other on a cross-border drugs run (hence the title) to make some quick cash for his friend's new life. As a couple of unfortunate events do not go the guys' way, they find out the hard way that these were not usual drugs, and to say that unfolding events take them (and the viewer) into unexpected situations would be an understatement, and it certainly brings a new take on the cabin-in-the-woods trope. Not so much body-horror as body-trauma, the more brutal aspects of the film sit alongside some appropriate themes of unrequited love and homophobia, led by two committed performances by Cooper Koch and Jese Colon. Although the characters are drawn quite thinly, the film generates an almost hypnotic feel of isolation and helplessness which is fairly interesting and quite stylishly presented.
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