Carter Smith Discusses Queer Horror Film Swallowed

“Yeah, I’ve always been a genre fan and I’ve always been queer, and those two things always kind of ran parallel to each other and never intersected. I mean, there was that one moment in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 where they did, and there have been a couple of other places. But I just felt like if I was going to make a movie that’s mine, something that is one hundred percent from me—and of course, it’s also for audiences and other people—but I’m gonna tell the story with the sort of characters I’m interested in exploring, who are going through the kind of stuff that either I’ve gone through or people I know have gone through, and not having to ‘straight it up’ or tone things down.”

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