‘The Passenger’ – Director Carter Smith Brings Complex Characters to His New Road Trip Thriller [Interview]

Carter Smith (The Ruins, Swallowed) is back this week with the new thriller The Passenger, the latest collaboration between Blumhouse and MGM+. Releasing on Digital and On Demand today (August 4), the film, written by Jack Stanley, stars Johnny Berchtold (Gaslit), Kyle Gallner (Scream, Smile), and Liza Weil. “The film follows Randolph “Randy” Bradley (Berchtold) who is perfectly content fading into the […]

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Exclusive ‘Swallowed’ Clip Hunted Down in the Woods

Director Carter Smith (The Ruins) is back with Swallowed, a “slimy, wild queer horror movie” that’s just been dated for VOD and Digital release of February 14, 2023. In the film from Momentum Pictures, “After a drug run goes bad, two friends must survive a nightmarish ordeal of drugs, bugs and horrific intimacy in this body-horror thriller.” Jena Malone (The […]

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Is “Midnight Kiss” The Queerest Slasher Film Ever Made? [Horror Queers Podcast]

New Queer’s Eve. It’s been a pretty wild December, with us covering off-kilter films like the much-maligned Batman & Robin, the not-as-bad-as-you-think Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings and the Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins-penned murder mystery The Last of Sheila. Now we’re wrapping up the year with a discussion of Carter Smith‘s (The Ruins, Jamie Marks […]

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‘Swallowed’ – Ingest the Teaser Trailer for Drug-Induced Body Horror! [Exclusive]

The Ruins director Carter Smith is back with Swallowed, a “slimy, wild queer horror” movie that’s having its World Premiere at this weekend’s Overlook Film Festival, which kicks off today in New Orleans. Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive teaser trailer premiere that begins after a drug run goes bad – two childhood friends must survive […]

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Kyle Gallner Will Star in ‘The Ruins’ Director Carter Smith’s ‘The Passenger’

Fresh off this year’s Scream, Kyle Gallner will next be seen in the thriller The Passenger for Blumhouse Television and EPIX, Deadline has announced this afternoon. Johnny Berchtold (Gaslit) will star alongside Kyle Gallner. “The film follows Randolph Bradley (Berchtold) who is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson (Gallner) snaps and […]

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‘The Ruins’ Director Carter Smith Wraps Filming on “Slimy, Wild Queer Horror” Movie ‘Swallowed’

It looks like The Ruins director Carter Smith is going back to his body-horror roots with his latest feature, Swallowed. That includes re-teaming with The Ruins’ lead actress Jena Malone. An Instagram post by Smith reveals a few key details about the mysterious horror film; production recently wrapped in Maine and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge actor Mark Patton also stars. Smith […]

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