All Jacked Up and Full of Worms (2022) by Alex Phillips

Director: Alex Phillips

Year: 2022

Country: USA

Alternate Titles: N/A

Genre: Body-Horror; Horror/Comedy 

Plot:

While working at a remote hotel, a cleaner and his girlfriend stumble upon a strange batch of psychedelic worms left behind and indulge in the offerings which turn the entire relationship between them and several other residents in the hotel into a bizarre trip no one may come out alive.

Review:

This was a weird and generally bizarre effort. That this one offers a near-endless stream of over-the-top images with the outcome of the drugged worms offering the kind of ooze-filled visuals that denote a drug trip is really all it has going for it. The endless number of times that someone is getting high off the strange worms through the highly unusual methods featured here and then undergoing a series of highly unconventional drug trips that provide the kind of bizarre format that gets a lot of its power through these unconventional concepts by putting those on the forefront of the scene. It gives the scenes a different nature and has the most to like here.

Beyond that, though, there’s not much going on with the film. The imagery isn’t overtly scary but rather weird and that makes for the potential to be bored senseless with the endless repetition of different effects being utilized one after another. That’s also due to the lackluster story that never once goes for anything resembling a coherent storyline since what goes on here is played off like a series of illogically connected sketches loosely assembled into a feature-length running time. Very little of this comes off with any kind of foresight or logic and it tends to be incredibly frustrating as a result which all combine together to lower this one significantly.

Overview: */5

Visually stimulating but offering very little else, this one comes off like a fine example in a style that not everyone will appreciate which makes a lot of the positives here quite moot and underwhelming. This one is simply for those that enjoy the weird and esoteric side of the genre while just about everyone else might be turned off by the flaws present which can really undermine a lot of the other factors here.