{"id":111882,"date":"2025-09-03T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111882\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:20:15","slug":"get-a-first-glimpse-at-stranger-things-stars-upcoming-horror-the-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111882\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a First Glimpse at ‘Stranger Things’ Star’s Upcoming Horror ‘The Swallow’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deadline<\/a> has our first look at The Swallow, a brand-new monster movie starring Stranger Things\u2018 Grace Van Dien (who is yes, the daughter of the great Casper Van Dien) and directed by 2019\u2019s Pet Sematary directors Kevin K\u00f6lsch and Dennis Widmyer. That\u2019s all well and good, but what makes The Swallow especially notable? Well, per the synopsis, it sounds a heck of a lot like Tremors, except in the woods.<\/p>\n

According to Deadline, Van Dien plays a character named Ziggy, \u201cwho, along with her four friends, journeys out on a camping trip to a picturesque remote forest. But trespassing into an off-limits area, they awaken an uncanny terror in the woods\u2026and a ravenous hunger from within the Earth. Soon, the ground itself is trying to swallow anything and anyone it touches and now the group have nowhere to run as every step they take could be their last.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, we love movies about subterranean monsters dragging people to their deaths\u2014from Blood Beach, in which a giant crinoid-esque echinoderm snatches sunbathers from the sand, to that one episode of the X-Files<\/a> about divergently-evolved Spanish conquistadors in the woods of Florida. We especially love the aforementioned Tremors series, which follows the complicated lifecycles of giant precambrian invertebrates in Nevada.<\/p>\n

Thus, we can\u2019t help be pulled in by a horror film that may be about an undiscovered arboreal worm monster.\u00a0 That said, The Swallow seems to be hyping a more\u00a0\u201cuncanny\u201d entity, hellbent on \u201ctrying to swallow anything and anyone it touches.\u201d So while that could mean a massive evil antlion, the description seems to suggest something closer to a supernatural Sarlacc, like the ghostly ground beast in that one Goosebumps book<\/a>, or even a Blob-like terror. The latter may be the likeliest case, as the production team includes The Blob \u201988\u2019s SFX supervisor Tony Gardner, \u201cwhose in-camera work will bring the malevolent forces that lurk in the forest to life.\u201d Expect a lot of POV shots from the ground up.<\/p>\n

Described as \u201ca lean, mean horror film\u201d that\u2019s \u201cessentially one extended set piece of tension and primal horror that just keeps ratcheting up,\u201d directors K\u00f6lsch and Widmyer said that The Swallow \u201cis a tonal throwback to the type of horror that made us excited about this genre in the first place. Something pure, visceral and absolutely harrowing. Our hope is that it will make you never look at the ground the same way again.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll need to wait and see just what \u201cThe Swallow\u201d really is: The film has only just \u201cwrapped principal photography in Oregon, USA,\u201d according to Deadline, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadline has our first look at The Swallow, a brand-new monster movie starring Stranger Things\u2018 Grace Van Dien…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[53957,96,51920,53958,53959,2839,53960,11978,53961,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-111882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-blood-beach","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-goosebumps","11":"tag-grace-van-dien","12":"tag-monsters","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-the-swallow","15":"tag-the-x-files","16":"tag-tremors","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}