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But, suffice to say, it gets gnarly.Īs the film enters its third act, Mark Patton ( A Nightmare on Elm Street 2) bursts onto the scene with an unhinged performance as a queer drug dealer with a flair for the violent and dramatic. To say much else would spoil the rolling hits of gut-churning revelations of Swallowed. They embark on a hellish trip that reveals the horrors of the unspecific contraband traveling through their digestive tracts. But, when she makes both Dom and Benjamin swallow the cargo to smuggle it across the Canadian border, they quickly realize they’re in over their heads. So, on the way home from the bar, Dom stops to do a drug pick-up from Alice (Jena Malone) so he can earn some extra cash for Benjamin. While Benjamin swears his new job has his trip out covered, Dom still wants to make sure he’s financially secure. Benjamin is about to move to LA to pursue a career in gay porn, leaving Dom behind in this small Maine town. Dom smiles and cheers his friend on, all while looking like he wants to be more than friends. Benjamin moves with ease and comfort around Dom as small beads of sweat drip down his neck. Immediately there’s a spark struck between the two. The film opens with Benjamin (Cooper Koch) dancing in a dive bar while his friend (not boyfriend) Dom (Jose Colon) films him. Thankfully, director Carter Smith ( The Ruins) saw that as a challenge and made his newest film Swallowed, a dirty, transgressive, and sexy queer horror film that shuns the straight gaze for an unabashedly gay one. There’s no space for messy queer narratives, both literally and figuratively. Queerness is made palatable for wide audiences, either used as comedy or to convey some perceived-beautiful tragedy that shows just how difficult being queer is. Queer representation in media is, overall, sanitized.