Sam, newly a mother, shops at a supermarket with her baby and husband Carlson. She throws a neighborhood shishkabob party and has a family Sunday breakfast. But through her smiles and picturesque tasks, there's a suppression. Sam’s grown something she can no longer contain. This breaking point is the film SWALLOWED, where psychological horror meets dance.
Direction
Lily Baldwin merges choreography and horror with surgical precision.
Director
Lily Baldwin
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Part of Refinery29's Shatterbox Anthology, a series commissioning female directors to make horror shorts—rare studio support for experimental feminist body horror.
Baldwin's background as a professional dancer explains why the horror lands through movement, not jump scares—the parasite 'birth' is choreographed like a duet.
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