- Directed by Carter Smith
- Written by Carter Smith
- Stars Cooper Koch, Jose Colon, Jena Malone, Mark Patton
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 36 Minutes
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El8wi_zCqGc
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
You might think you know where things are going at the beginning, and you will be right. But it’s weirder than that. It’s got a good cast and script and was very entertaining.
Synopsis
Ben and Dom talk at the dance club. Ben’s leaving soon, and they’re going to miss each other. The company he’s working for in L.A. is paying all the expenses for the move—he’s going to be a porn star. They leave the club and go to see Alice, a friend of Dom’s cousin, Dee; Dee’s messed up on some kind of drugs.
Alice is hiring Dom for “a run,” and she explains the directions and location they’re heading for. She gives him a whole bunch of drugs in condoms; Dom has to swallow them the get them over the border. Dom says it’s a financial gift for Ban, who had no idea this was going to be a thing. Dom refuses, but Alice pulls a gun, saying it’s too late to back out now. She warns him about not tearing or damaging them when they “come out again.” She also mentions some odd temperature restrictions. Dom swallows them, one by one. Just to keep Ben quiet, she makes him swallow a couple as well. Dom doesn’t even know what’s in the little bundles. What could go wrong?
Dom and Ben drive on to the border station. They pass through without any problem at all.
They stop at a rest area, and Dom goes in to see if he can poop out the drugs. Ben waits outside as a truck drives up and a guy goes inside. Ben comes inside to see how Dom’s doing, and the redneck comes back inside. He starts accusing them of doing gay stuff in the restroom, but it’s obvious that they’re just talking. Dom argues with the man, who punches him in the gut—hard. The man then goes outside and slashes their tires.
Within a minute or two, Dom starts having stomach pains. Ben wants to call 911, but Dom refuses to let him do it. He poops out one of the little packages, and it’s—moving. It’s not drugs, it’s something alive. They go back out to their truck, and Dom says he can’t feel his legs.
Alice shows up, and she knows something is wrong. Ben tells her what happened. They all get into her car; she says they’re going to a hospital. She says that they’re some kind of bugs that people use to get high. It soon becomes obvious that they are not going to a hospital. She says that Dom’s pains will wear off in an hour or two anyway.
They park in the isolated woods and load the mostly paralyzed Dom into a wheelbarrow. They need to get the rest of the bugs out of Dom for Alice’s boss. Alice says this whole thing was Dom’s idea—he wanted a bunch of money fast. She points out that Dom’s in love with Ben, but Ben didn’t even realize Dom was gay.
Alice’s boss calls, and she says they have to get the bugs out of Dom “Right now!” She pulls out the Vaseline bottle. “You don’t want them hatching in there.” Ben reaches up and pulls one out of Dom—the hard way.
Rich walks in—he’s Alice’s clearly unstable boss. He takes one look at Dom, “Is he bit?” Rich is sadistic and tells Alice to get lost. Ben continues “fishing” for little worm bags inside Dom. Alice walks to her car, but she looks conflicted about leaving.
Dom goes into convulsions, but he’s only got one more inside him. They pull out the bag, but the worm has gotten out—inside Dom. Dom soon dies. Alice and Rich go outside to argue, and Ben hears a gunshot.
Rich comes in, and now that they’re alone, he wants to do naughty things with Ben. He watches Ben undress for his bath. Ben goes in the bathroom, but the only “weapon” he can find is a pair of tweezers. Rich awkwardly washes Ben’s body in the tub.
Ben goes outside to pee and searches Alice’s body. Rich offers to give Ben Alice and Dom’s share of the money. Ben stabs Rich in the neck with the tweezers before running off through the woods. He takes Rich’s car keys, but then finds that he can’t start the car.
Rich isn’t dead, and he comes after Ben. He soon gives up and goes back to the cabin to cry and dispose of the bodies. Meanwhile Ben’s gotta poop. It comes out clean and alive inside the package; then he gets an idea.
Rich goes inside, and Ben attacks him from behind. Now in control of the gun, Ben takes one of the worms and makes it bite Rich. Ben then drags the paralyzed Rich out to the outhouse where he drops him in headfirst.
As end credits roll, we See Ben in L.A. at an award show for being a successful porn star, still in Rich’s jacket.
Commentary
Someone actually made a horror film with “fisting.” Why am I not surprised?
You think you know where it’s going for the first half hour, and then it gets weird. The cast is small, and it all makes sense. Everyone acts realistically, even with the bugs.
It’s very unusual, which is cool. I liked it!