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All Jacked Up and Full of Worms

2022

Betsey Brown, Phillip Andre Botello, Trevor Dawkins, Noah Lepawsky ...

Horror. Comedy Two strangers bond over eating addictive, hallucinogenic worms leading them on a psychotic bender full of murder and perversity through the back alleys of Chicago.

	Media	Author	Review
		J Hurtado Screen Anarchy	"'All Jacked Up and Full of Worms' is the kind of bizarro nightmare that is definitely going to divide audiences. Its gleeful lack of logic, pitch black nihilism, and willful grossness is definitely not for everyone"
		Deirdre Crimmins Paste Magazine	"It is bound to alienate and turn off a good chunk of the general population. But for John Waters lovers and proud weirdos, it is a scintillating addition to teeny budget favorites."
		Jon Mendelsohn CBR	"[It] is an impressive piece of transgressive filmmaking that will shock and delight in equal measure"
		Marco Vito Oddo Collider	"What the heck did I just watch? (...) it was developed to cause repulsion, disgust, and even anger. After watching Phillips’ directorial debut, we can say the filmmaker succeeded"
		Erin Brady SlashFilm	"[It] is clearly not meant to be an easily accessible crowd-pleaser (...) However, there is a certain charm, carried by its surreal visuals and the chemistry between Botello and Dawkins, that makes it an entertaining watch."
		Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"It’s strange to say a film with a giant puppet King Worm, sex crimes, stabbings, and mutating human-worm hybrids projectile-vomiting is too tame, but here we are. Too much eccentricity. Not enough bonkers."
		Mary Beth McAndrews Dread Central	"Phillips is channeling the work of Todd Solondz through his own psychedelic lens that burrows and tunnels its way into your brain."
		Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"A psychedelic horror film targeting viewers willing to take the same kind of trip as the movie's characters (...) Alex Phillips and his cast aren't telling a story so much as staging a succession of surreal sketches"
		Alexander Harrison Screen Rant	"The predominant characteristic of its journey through psychosis is aimlessness. Perhaps this was the artist's intention. But, for this critic, that wasn't quite enough to have made this particular trip worth taking (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"The performances here are uniformly sound in creating Phillips' world, like a slew of funny and strange people you know you’d want to see again, maybe in part because you've seen them in this movie"

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