A young couple’s carefree Southern road trip takes a nightmarish detour when they pull off the highway to try a legendary backroads barbecue joint in rural Alabama. The smokehouse’s sizzling pits, friendly small-town charm, and mouthwatering plates seem too good to be true—until they start noticing the nervous staff, the locked back rooms, and the locals who never quite stop watching them. As the couple digs deeper into the smokehouse’s history, they uncover a horrifying secret on the chopping block and find themselves fighting to become more than just the next item on the menu.

Inside Chopped is a tense, slow-burn horror short from writer/director Kevin Wayne, starring Don Swayze and Kevin Wayne, that blends Southern Gothic atmosphere with grindhouse grit. What begins as a foodie stop in the middle of nowhere turns into a claustrophobic battle for survival—where every savory bite comes with a price in blood.