"Swallowed" is referred to as a body horror movie, but it isn't really that, nor a horror movie at all. It's closer to a thriller, I guess, though it has no thrills.
Its premise is pretty awkward. Two gay friends celebrate their last night together before one of them (Ben) must leave for LA to become a porn star. The other (Dom) takes Ben to a drug dealer for a going away gift, and the gift turns out to be... forcing him to do a drug run into Canada? I didn't really understand that. How is that a gift?
The guys balk when they realise they are going to have to swallow the drugs, but the dealer (played by an irritating Jena Malone) forces them to at gunpoint.
On the way, they stop at a public bathroom where they're confronted with a homophobic redneck, who punches Dom right where you don't want to be punched when you're carrying packets of drugs in your bowels.
With Dom in a bad way, the guys end up at a cabin with Alice, and her boss, an older gay man named Rich, shows up. Rich is played by Mark Patton, who played the protagonist in the notoriously gay-themed second Elm St. Movie, "Freddy's Revenge".
I didn't really understand this character or what he's doing in the movie. Does he want the drugs too? He seemed more interested in seducing the beautiful Ben. (Ben looks kind of like the young Johnny Depp, but not as striking).
Ben gets nude for Rich, in a sequence that will be the only thing in this movie anybody watches it for, or remembers it, if anybody does. I bet most people will just watch the scenes on Aznude Men or similar sites, and skip the movie.
I won't spoil the ending, not that there's much to spoil. I don't know. This movie just wasn't that interesting. It didn't commit to the body horror premise, nor even the gay themed angle. It's just pretty boring, and a gay interest body horror movie should be anything but that. There's a twist with the "drugs" and what they actually are that should have been effective but isn't. The movie doesn't do anything with it.
Its premise is pretty awkward. Two gay friends celebrate their last night together before one of them (Ben) must leave for LA to become a porn star. The other (Dom) takes Ben to a drug dealer for a going away gift, and the gift turns out to be... forcing him to do a drug run into Canada? I didn't really understand that. How is that a gift?
The guys balk when they realise they are going to have to swallow the drugs, but the dealer (played by an irritating Jena Malone) forces them to at gunpoint.
On the way, they stop at a public bathroom where they're confronted with a homophobic redneck, who punches Dom right where you don't want to be punched when you're carrying packets of drugs in your bowels.
With Dom in a bad way, the guys end up at a cabin with Alice, and her boss, an older gay man named Rich, shows up. Rich is played by Mark Patton, who played the protagonist in the notoriously gay-themed second Elm St. Movie, "Freddy's Revenge".
I didn't really understand this character or what he's doing in the movie. Does he want the drugs too? He seemed more interested in seducing the beautiful Ben. (Ben looks kind of like the young Johnny Depp, but not as striking).
Ben gets nude for Rich, in a sequence that will be the only thing in this movie anybody watches it for, or remembers it, if anybody does. I bet most people will just watch the scenes on Aznude Men or similar sites, and skip the movie.
I won't spoil the ending, not that there's much to spoil. I don't know. This movie just wasn't that interesting. It didn't commit to the body horror premise, nor even the gay themed angle. It's just pretty boring, and a gay interest body horror movie should be anything but that. There's a twist with the "drugs" and what they actually are that should have been effective but isn't. The movie doesn't do anything with it.