Swallowed

"They go down the hatch before they make the trip."

2022 1h 36m EN

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5.6

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★5.6TMDB · 84

ThrillerHorror

Synopsis

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Benjamin and Dom have been best friends since they were kids. On their last night together, Dom plans to send Benjamin off with a pocketful of cash. All he has to do is deliver a package over the border for a friend...

“They go down the hatch before they make the trip.”

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Cast

Cooper Koch
Benjamin
Jose Colon
Dom
Jena Malone
Alice
Mark Patton
Rich
Roe Pacheco
Border Patrol Agent
Michael Shawn Curtis
Randy Redneck
Hannah Perry
Dee
Thee Suburbia
Self

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Carter Smith
Writers: Carter Smith
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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2 / 8

CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Carter Smith, shot by Alexander W. Lewis. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Christopher Bear. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Eric Nagy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Cooper Koch and Jose Colon and Jena Malone carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "They go down the hatch before they make the trip.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt14960854 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Carter Smith directs. Alexander W. Lewis behind the camera. Christopher Bear scores. Eric Nagy cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 4 years ago.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Directed by Carter Smith, shot by Alexander W. Lewis. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Christopher Bear. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Eric Nagy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Cooper Koch and Jose Colon and Jena Malone carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "They go down the hatch before they make the trip.".
8IMDB entry: tt14960854 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 84 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Alexander W. Lewis
Original score: Christopher Bear
Editing: Eric Nagy
Production design: Jay Carroll
Costume design: Rob Younkers
VFX supervisor: Sylwester Lipiński
Sound: Anthony Cappellino
Runtime: 96 min · 1h 36m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Swallowed (2022)

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CinemaSerf2025-12-28
★ 6/10
With the hunky “Ben” (Cooper Koch) about to head off to the city to make his fortune as a gay porn star, his lifelong pal “Dom” (Jose Colon) concocts a wheeze to raise him some extra cash. Thing is, though, when they meet up with “Alice” (Jena Malone) they don’t quite like what she proposes. She isn’t the prevaricating type, though, and so soon these two boys have consumed something that everyone hopes the border guards won’t find en route to Canada. A pit stop at a toilet en route sees things get complicated for “Dom” and then “Alice” reappears to save the day by taking them to a remote woodland cabin where they encounter their menacingly camp-as-Christmas boss “Rich” (Mark Patton) who knows that what they swallowed isn’t quite what they thought they had swallowed! Now by this point, poor old “Dom” can’t get rid of these packages by himself, so it falls to “Ben” to pretend he is James Herriot and as tensions rise, he begins to wonder if he is going to survive this ordeal. It’s surreal nonsense this film, but I did quite enjoy the last half hour as the glamorous Koch wanders around the woods in his tiny-whities being pursued by a sort of pink panther that might have made Blake Edwards blush. There’s some nudity, and for a change it isn’t obscured by plants or curtains or cushions; indeed the aptly named Colon gives much for his art! There might have been more of an horror aspect to this, but that’s largely undercooked as the story quite disappointingly fizzles out, but I’ve seen so many drab and dreary “cabin in the woods” style of drama - including the only other gay-themed “Knock at the Cabin” (2023) that I can think of, that this actually holds up remarkably well in an easy on the eye fashion. Acting? Well Malone does ok for a while as the feisty pusher and Patton hams up nicely but in the end it’s all about the boy and he doesn’t disappoint!

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