Swallow

2019 Directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis

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Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.

Haley Bennett Austin Stowell Elizabeth Marvel David Rasche Denis O'Hare Lauren Vélez Zabryna Guevara Laith Nakli Babak Tafti Nicole Kang Myra Lucretia Taylor Maya Days Alyssa Bresnahan Olivia Perez Kristi Kirk Elise Santora

Alternative Title

Saplantı

horror thriller drama

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Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★½ 18

look how she ate that!!!!!!
Review by Sean Baker 14

Fantastic debut by Carlo Mirabella-Davis. With both writing and directing, he really understands how to keep an audience enrapt. The film goes to unexpected places and tackles some heavy subjects. I woke up this morning thinking about it.
And honestly, I can't remember cringing so hard while watching a film. And I'm referring to the good cringe. I would say that the squeamish should beware however anybody would be squeamish when it comes to these some of these scenes.
Halley Bennet truly owns this role. Now I'm a fan.
Beautifully shot by Katelin Arizmendi (Cam) on Arri Amira with Zeiss Master Prime Lenses and color graded by Sam Daley (Florida Project).
This will be on my top ten of 2020. Guaranteed.
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Review by maria ★★★½ 16

that jennifer lawrence clone looking mothafacka straight up has binged all those "my strange addiction: i can't stop eating rocks" videos
Review by oppie ★★★★ 3

girlies be so fine and then BOOM eat a battery
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 2

Okay, hear me out. I think it's a metaphor.
Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 5

There isn't a single moment of this movie when I wasn't deeply uncomfortable. Highly recommended.
Review by josh lewis ★★★ 2

women be eating!!!!
eating away at their own bodily autonomy by internalizing the roles being projected on them
Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 2

There’s something fitting about the fact that Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ “Swallow” — a provocative and frequently brilliant thriller about the patriarchal control over female bodies — is set in a purgatorial stretch of upstate New York that’s roughly equidistant from both Jeanne Dielman’s home at 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, and the arid San Fernando Valley that almost suffocates Carol White to death in “Safe.” While he might not possess Chantal Akerman’s visionary patience, or exhibit Todd Haynes’ singular talent for mining horror from metaphor, Mirabella-Davis has crafted a sharp and surprising modern fable around a woman whose environment has been weaponized against her since birth.
The submissive but subtly demented housewife of a standard-issue Patrick Bateman wannabe (Austin Stowell), Hunter…
Review by katie ★½ 14

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

so glad her mom's rapist set her free of her illness at the end, what a great resolution ✊❤️
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★½ 18

REALLY bummed i never came around to this. while i think the way it goes about these themes is pretty clever, i didn’t really get much out of the film itself other than an “oh, neat” and some really intense squirms. said “ouch” out loud once or twice which is really embarrassing on my part. it had all the right ingredients, thumbtacks and all, but i didn’t taste a thing.
Review by aaron ★★★½ 9

I can overlook her casually eating a battery but I draw the line at that fucking wig
Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★★ 17

Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
Metacritic Metascore: 66
IMDB: 6.3
83/100
Release Date: 06 March 2020
Distributor: IFC Films
Budget: $4M
2020 Ranked
Amazon Ranked
Katherine Conrad: "30 hours, and then he was born blue, slate blue, we all thought he was dead, but then he started breathing and crawling."
SYNOPSIS: Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
An extremely self-aware A-to-Z psychological thriller about taking back your life through rituals of control, complete with patriarchal caricatures and metaphors of intrusion left and right (think Aronofsky's "mother"--but a dark comedy).
TOTAL FILM AWARDS: 15…

Recent reviews

Review by Selena May ★★★½

Her husband annoyed the hell out of me. Kinda artsy, kinda cool. Ends a bit abruptly considering the slow build up.
Review by loïs ★★★

quand elle avalé la punaise j'ai su que j'allais vomir
Review by Clara_E ★★★★½

One of the most original, unsettling thrillers I’ve ever seen. Every frame of this movie looks like a painting. The conclusion of the film feels like a massive weight has been lifted from the protagonist and the viewer.
Review by J.D. Gravatte ★★★★½

Wow. This made me feel so uncomfortable at so many moments. It created a ton on tension in small moments. And the way it put you in Hunter's place was incredible.
Review by Mateo Dorado ★★★★½

wow
Review by Austinacl02 ★★★

Happy international women's day. ❤️❤️
Review by sevilaay ★★★

Psikoloji ile alakalı bir şeyler izlemek her zaman hoşuma gider fakat filmde çok fazla gereksiz detay vardı örneğin; Suriyeli bakıcı üzerinden politik olma çabası irite etti. Gerek var mıydı? hiç sanmıyorum, filmin temasına tersti bence. Kısaca konu, fikir güzel fakat işleniş kısmında çok problem var.
Review by Loofa ★★★

Not an easy watch to say the least, Swallow succeeds in disturbing me to the point where I'll never watch this again.
But it's well acted and the sets are really beautiful.
Review by brondo ★★★½

Drinking a Ramune is way more disturbing now
Review by overgrowncherub ★★★

good for her
Review by imcesarc ★★★★½

Se convierte en mi película favorita de este mes.
Review by supersonic132 ★★★½

Refreshing debut