Swallowed is a 2022 American independent body horror film written and directed by Carter Smith.

The film stars Cooper Koch, Jose Colon, Jena Malone, and Mark Patton.

Two friends, Benjamin and Dom, are celebrating their last night together in a small Maine town before Ben flies to Los Angeles to become a gay porn star.

Dom, who is secretly in love with Ben and wants to show how much he believes in him, drives them to pick up a special going-away gift.

It turns out that Dom has agreed to do a drug run into Canada to make some money for Ben to help him set up his life in LA.

Ben calls for an ambulance just as Alice, alerted by a text sent earlier by Dom, arrives and makes him hang up.

Alice takes the boys in her truck, and explains that the condoms contain larvae with venomous bites that get people high.

Ben retrieves a sharp pair of tweezers – the nearest thing to a weapon – and gets in the bath just as Rich enters, still armed.

Ben charms Rich into letting him put on his underpants, shoes and a jacket before stabbing him in the neck with the tweezers and fleeing.

[2] Upon writing, Smith had written the role of Rich for Mark Patton, while The Ruins collaborator and friend Jena Malone was the first choice he had in mind for Alice.

[4][5] In January 2023, Momentum Pictures purchased the North American distribution rights, and released the film on video-on-demand and other digital retailers on February 14, 2023.

The website's consensus reads: "Although its second half is difficult to digest, Swallowed is an admirably unusual – and overall effective – mixture of body horror and romance.