Stomach small rounded mass of chewed up food) enters the stomach through the oesophagus via the lower oesophageal sphincter. The stomach releases proteases (protein-digesting enzymes such as pepsin) and hydrochloric acid, which kills or inhibits bacteria and provides the acidic pH of 2 for the proteases to work. Food is churned by the stomach through muscular contractions of the wall called peristalsis – reducing the volume of the bolus, before looping around the fundus and the body of stomach as the boluses are converted into chyme (partially digested food). Chyme slowly passes through the pyloric sphincter and into the duodenum of
The Stomach being. Tired of the constant pain and suffering, Frank decides that he will give up the medium life but finds that one of his customers is unwilling to accept his new decision to change his career. Dread Central praised "The Stomach", writing "A mixture of genres packed into 15 minutes, "The Stomach" is a triumphant mash of cockney gangster-ism, ghost story and Cronenberg-esque body horror." "Twitch Film" also enjoyed the short, marking Steiner as "a filmmaker to watch". The Stomach The Stomach is a British short horror film that was written and directed by Ben Steiner. The film had its