All Jacked Up and Full of Worms teaser trailer: psychedelic freakout comes to Screambox this fall

Cinedigm has acquired all North American distribution rights to writer/director Alex Phillips’ film All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, and are planning to release it through their streaming service Screambox sometime this fall. That release will then be followed by an exclusive window on the company’s indie discovery platform Fandor. As they get ready to send All Jacked Up and Full of Worms out into the world, they have also released a teaser trailer, and you can check it out in the embed above. Yes, it’s just as wild, weird, and disgusting as you would expect the trailer for something called All Jacked Up and Full of Worms to be.

Described as an “avant-gutter psychedelic freakout” and a subversively funny “transgressive splatter comedy”, this is Phillips’ feature debut. All Jacked Up and Full of Worms is

a flamboyant, darkly outrageous new vision that mashes together retro grindhouse thrills with the squirmy depths of underground cinema. Working at a seedy motel, maintenance man Roscoe is always searching for his latest fix. When he stumbles upon a powerfully hallucinogenic worm, his days of dime-store drugs are over. Along with his new love interest,, the pair embark on a delirious odyssey of sex, violence, and becoming one with the dirt.

The film stars Phillip Andre Botello (The Art of Self-Defense), Trevor Dawkins (Easy), and Betsey Brown (The Scary of Sixty-First). Eva Fellows, Mike Lopez, Carol Rhyu, and Sammy Arechar are also in the cast.

Phillips had this to say about his movie:

We put our blood and guts into making this movie, and that’s literally up on the screen. We got shut down by the pandemic and had to go totally underground, but it worked because we started out down there, with the worms, wrestling with our demons in the filth. Having the movie premiere at Fantasia followed by Screambox and Fandor, and seeing some of the love we’re already getting, really makes me excited that underground cinema can still wriggle its way up and get in your face.”

Phillips produced All Jacked Up and Full of Worms with Georgia Bernstein and Ben Gojer.

Take a look at the trailer, then let us know what you thought of it by leaving a comment below. Are you looking forward to All Jacked Up and Full of Worms?