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Exclusive: Mimi Rogers (Bosch: Legacy) and Cemre Paksoy (As the Crow Flies) are attached to star in Night Nurse, an erotic thriller from writer-director Georgia Bernstein, which will mark her feature debut.

The film takes place behind the gates of a remote retirement community, where a starry-eyed nurse is beguiled by a string of perverse scam calls. When she discovers her patient is the seductive con man behind these schemes, her innocent flirtation blooms into a lust for deception.

Eddie Linker (Ghostlight), Alex Phillips and Lucy Rogers are set to produce, with production to kick off in October.

“Night Nurse inhabits the central fantasy that allures the victim to their scammer,” said Bernstein in a statement on the project. “Unrealized desires drive my characters to trust the untrustworthy and to risk everything.”

Said Rogers, “I was intrigued by the provocative,...

British royal family news shows that the Duke and Duchess of Excess, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, today wrapped up a three-day tour of globally challenged Nigeria.

During their time there they played polo-husband-and-wife, took selfies with confused school kids, and played chair volleyball in Abuja. Reports indicate that the greedy couple allowed (demanded?) that the government pay for their security costs.

Royal News – Meghan and Harry Treated Like Royalty

Going to Nigeria seems a curious choice for a couple of eco-hypocrites: reports indicate that in 2005 “Nigeria had the highest rate of deforestation in the world, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.”

Additionally, in 2010 “thousands of people were inadvertently exposed to lead-containing soil from informal gold mining within the northern state of Zamfara … upwards of 400 children died of acute lead poisoning … perhaps the largest lead poisoning fatality outbreak ever encountered.”

Yet Meghan and Harry were...

Take a trip with Bloody Disgusting and Fandor’s freaky festival favorite All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, the hallucinogenic horror-comedy that is now streaming exclusively on Screambox and also available on all VOD platforms.

Fans in the New York area can enjoy this transgressive splatter comedy in theaters one night only at the Museum of the Moving Image on February 3 @ 6 Pm.

Writer-director Alex Phillips, who makes his feature debut on the avant-gutter freakout, will be appearing in person. Get tickets now.

In the film, “Working at a seedy motel, maintenance man Roscoe (Phillip Andre Botello) 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 (Dawkins), the pair embark on a delirious odyssey of sex, violence, and becoming one with the dirt.”

The transgressive splatter comedy also stars Trevor Dawkins...

With October upon us—and specifically the spooky season, with all the “Shocktober” viewing plans that come with it—we’re drawing upon our deep well of festival dispatches and interviews with indie horror creators. Here’s 13 (mostly) recent indie horror films we’ve written about, all currently available to stream on widely-beloved ad-supported streamer service Tubi. All Jacked Up and Full of Worms The psychedelic potency of fictional invertebrates is pure nightmare fuel in Alex Phillips’s feature debut All Jacked Up and Full of Worms. Yet worms alone don’t drive the film’s deviant characters past the brink of sanity. Rather, the creature’s hallucinogenic […]

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With October upon us—and specifically the spooky season, with all the “Shocktober” viewing plans that come with it—we’re drawing upon our deep well of festival dispatches and interviews with indie horror creators. Here’s 13 (mostly) recent indie horror films we’ve written about, all currently available to stream on widely-beloved ad-supported streamer service Tubi. All Jacked Up and Full of Worms The psychedelic potency of fictional invertebrates is pure nightmare fuel in Alex Phillips’s feature debut All Jacked Up and Full of Worms. Yet worms alone don’t drive the film’s deviant characters past the brink of sanity. Rather, the creature’s hallucinogenic […]

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A royal commentator believes the royal family is right in their wishes to remain distant from Prince Harry. They say the clan should tell him to “bog off.” The slang refers to how the royals appear to be handling King Charles’ second son since he left his senior royal duties alongside his wife, Meghan Markle. The couple relocated from the United Kingdom to the United States in 2020.

‘Why would the royal family want to see Prince Harry?’ asks royal commentator

Royal commentator Alex Phillips shared her thoughts regarding Prince Harry’s strained relationship with the royal family. She believes the clan is right in keeping their distance from the beleaguered royal.

“Why would his family want to see him? If you had someone rattling around, talking to international media saying you’re a racist and abusive, you’d tell them to bog off!” Phillips claimed.

“It’s just constant titillation,...

Take a trip with Screambox and Fandor’s freaky festival favorite All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, the hallucinogenic horror-comedy is finally getting a Blu-ray release thanks to Terror Vision!

The slip cover variant is limited to only 2,000 units. The Blu-ray ships in late Sept/early Oct.

Director Alex Phillips delivers an absurd adventure that delighted Fantasia audiences and will take home viewers on a wild ride in this premiere Blu-ray release courtesy of Terror Vision. Complete with new special features including a commentary, interview, and short films, this is the ultimate trip with one of 2022’s most controversial films.

Pre-order All Jacked Up and Full of Worms now and add this to our killer Terror Vision line that also includes the Japanese remake of Cube, the heavy metal horror Welcome to Hell, and the hilarious horror comedy When the Screaming Starts, all streaming right now on Screambox.

In the film,...

The psychedelic potency of fictional invertebrates is pure nightmare fuel in Alex Phillips’s feature debut All Jacked Up and Full of Worms. Yet worms alone don’t drive the film’s deviant characters past the brink of sanity. Rather, the creature’s hallucinogenic properties serve as unfortunate conduits for their most depraved intrusive thoughts. There’s no shortage of gross-out bodily functions and overtly taboo images on display here—milky vomit, slimy appendages, an infant sex doll which must have put Phillips or another crew member on some sort of watchlist. Yet somehow, Worms doesn’t feel like just another piece of dirtbag, edgelord cinema. It’s […]

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We watch Sam Smith arrive at an old castle. Within seconds, they’re inside, surrounded by provocatively dressed dancers undulating suggestively. Smith stands at the centre, tassels on their nipples. Streams of water bounce off their face. In a nearby room, leather-clad BDSMers thrust amorously atop beds. I suppose it’s no wonder Smith’s latest music video, for the disco-inflected track “I’m Not Here to Make Friends”, has got people up in arms. It’s a raunchy, unabashed display of sexuality. Some have branded it “pornography” – but they’re wrong. It’s an accusation that reeks of homophobia.

The track itself isn’t the issue. “I’m Not Here to Make Friends” has pretty innocuous lyrics – tamely horny lines about looking to pull in a nightclub. Smith’s video, too, shouldn’t really have raised too many eyebrows: the non-binary English singer was simply embracing the kind of in-your-face,...

We watch Sam Smith arrive at an old castle. Within seconds, they’re inside, surrounded by provocatively dressed dancers undulating suggestively. Smith stands at the centre, tassels on their nipples. Streams of water bounce off their face. In a nearby room, leather-clad BDSMers thrust amorously atop beds. I suppose it’s no wonder Smith’s latest music video, for the disco-inflected track “I’m Not Here to Make Friends”, has got people up in arms. It’s a raunchy, unabashed display of sexuality. Some have branded it “pornography” – but they’re wrong. It’s an accusation that reeks of homophobia.

The track itself isn’t the issue. “I’m Not Here to Make Friends” has pretty innocuous lyrics – tamely horny lines about looking to pull in a nightclub. Smith’s video, too, shouldn’t really have raised too many eyebrows: the non-binary English singer was simply embracing the kind of in-your-face,...

Prepare to get weird with All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Writer/Director Alex Phillips’ feature that has just landed on the Bloody Disgusting-powered streaming service Screambox and VOD platforms.

The psychedelic freak-out movie makes for a wild ride that might test your gag reflex. In the film:

“Working at a seedy motel, maintenance man Roscoe (Phillip Andre Botello) 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 (Trevor Dawkins), the pair embark on a delirious odyssey of sex, violence, and becoming one with the dirt.”

Ahead of the film’s release, Bloody Disgusting spoke with Phillips about his transgressive debut, the haunting imagery,

Phillips shares how this bizarre journey started: “The whole thrust of the movie was I wanted to tell a story about my experience with psychosis. I mean,...

The pantheon of films about imagined illicit substances is varied and wide. First time feature director Alex Phillips throws his hat into the ring with his avant horror buddy trip, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms. This story of a pair of nobodies caught in their own independent downward spirals colliding and bonding over a newly found addiction to hallucinogenic worms is disturbing, disgusting, demented, and occasionally delightful in its complete abandon of taste and logic. Roscoe (Phillip Andrew Botello) works maintenance at a local no-tell motel, while his home life isn’t going so great. His hippie-dippy girlfriend keeps putting him through all sorts of uncomfortable “rituals” to help him transcend his mundane reality, all while bringing home another guy to spread the love....

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...

Take a trip with Bloody Disgusting and Fandor’s freaky festival favorite All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, the hallucinogenic horror-comedy that is now streaming exclusively on Screambox and also available on all VOD platforms.

In the film, “Working at a seedy motel, maintenance man Roscoe (Phillip Andre Botello) 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 (Dawkins), the pair embark on a delirious odyssey of sex, violence, and becoming one with the dirt.”

The transgressive splatter comedy also stars Trevor Dawkins (“Easy”) and Betsey Brown (The Scary of Sixty-First), with Mike Lopez, Noah Lepawsky and Eva Fellows. The film was produced by Georgia Bernstein and Ben Gojer.

Writer-director Alex Phillips makes his feature debut on the avant-gutter freakout.

All Jacked Up and Full of Worms premiered at the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival,...

The final two months of every year are a great time to catch up on horror movies that were released throughout the year, as there typically aren’t all that many new releases coming along at this point in time. Halloween is now behind us and things are slowing down a bit on the horror front for the holidays, but each new week still brings new releases along with it.

This week, 5 brand new horror movies will be available at home…

Here’s all the new horror releasing November 8, 2022 – November 13, 2022!

First up, the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox streaming service is serving up another slice of gross-out indie horror this week with All Jacked Up and Full of Worms.

Alex Phillips’s psychedelic freak-out is now streaming on Screambox!

In the film, “Working at a seedy motel, maintenance man Roscoe (Phillip Andre Botello) is always searching for his latest fix. When he...

Take a trip with freaky festival favorite All Jacked Up and Full of Worms! The hallucinogenic horror-comedy streams exclusively on Screambox on November 8, 2022.

It will also be available on VOD platforms the same day via Cinedigm.

Roscoe, a janitor for a scuzzy love motel, drifts through life until he discovers a hidden stash of powerful hallucinogenic worms. Guided by visions of a giant floating worm, he encounters Benny, a moped enthusiast trying to manifest a baby from an inanimate sex doll. They fall in love with doing worms together on a downward spiral into the primordial ooze.

Writer-director Alex Phillips makes his feature debut on the avant-gutter freakout. Phillip Andre Botello (The Art of Self-Defense), Trevor Dawkins (Easy), and Betsey Brown (The Scary of Sixty-First) star.

All Jacked Up and Full of Worms premiered at the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival, where festival programmer Celia Pouzet described it as “Trainspotting meets...

I'm no stranger to weird movie drugs, from the homemade hallucinogens created by the cult in "Mandy" to the seriously surreal Soy Sauce of "John Dies at the End," but doing worms is certainly a new one. In the upcoming horror film "All Jacked Up and Full of Worms," the movie's protagonists find their high by ingesting hallucinogenic worms. Check out the exclusive clip below to see exactly what kind of cinematic madness writer and director Alex Phillips has cooked up for fans of freaky films. It's only a tiny taste, but the full film will be coming to the Bloody Disgusting streaming app Screambox and VOD streaming services on November 8, 2022, just in time for everyone to start craving something spooky again after the horrors of Halloween. 

Watch An Exclusive Clip From All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms

"All Jacked Up and Full of Worms" is a bizarre, psychedelic...

Film is arguably the most challenging art form of them all. Seeing something disturbing in, say, a painting is vastly different than seeing something disturbing in motion on film. The way that movies are able to get underneath the skins of viewers is what makes the art form so special, and director Alex Phillips seems to fully understand this if his genre festival darling "All Jacked Up and Full of Worms" is any indication.

Roscoe (Phillip Andre Botello) finds himself stalled in life. His relationship with his girlfriend Samantha (Betsey Brown) has ended because she's taking exotic drugs with a strange guy named Jared (Noah Lepawsky). At the same time, perverted former bigot Benny (Trevor Dawkins) has his plans for fatherhood set back when he realizes the fake baby he ordered online is a sex doll. Their lives intertwine when they meet each other at the love hotel Roscoe works at,...

Halloween may be in the rearview, but the holiday spirit remains alive and well, judging by the continued onslaught of horror releases. It’s another horror feast this month!

November brings a plethora of new releases, gory cult gems, family-friendly offerings, and brand-new titles on streaming.

Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in November 2022 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.

Deep Fear – Screambox (November 1)

The claustrophobic element of subterranean horror always compounds the frantic terror, so expect things to get intense. A post-graduation celebration turns into a fight for survival in the catacombs of Paris in Deep Fear. Three students celebrate their graduation by visiting the Paris catacombs. When they discover a bunker formerly occupied by the Nazis, little do they know it’s not the only thing left behind. Something, someone, is now hunting them. Grégory Beghin...

Hey Chicago, get ready for “Music Box of Horrors: Scared Stupid”, the ongoing event taking place at the famous Music Box Theatre.

Fandor & the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox are excited to present our widely-celebrated, festival-sensation avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, which is set to screen at the Music Box this coming Friday, October 21 @ 9 Pm) with writer/director Alex Phillips in attendance!

Get Tickets Here!

This is just one showing as the film embarks on a limited theatrical roadshow run across select North American cities spanning October and November ahead of the film’s November 8th premiere date on the Bloody Disgusting-powered streaming service Screambox and VOD platforms, followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor.

In the film described as “a flamboyant, darkly outrageous new vision that mashes together retro grindhouse thrills with the squirmy depths of underground cinema”…

Working at a seedy motel,...

Worms… it’ll get you fucked up!

The widely-celebrated, festival-sensation avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, from writer/director Alex Phillips, embarks on a limited theatrical roadshow run across select North American cities spanning October and November ahead of the film’s November 8th premiere date on the Bloody Disgusting-powered streaming service Screambox and VOD platforms, followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor.

In the film described as “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 (Phillip Andre Botello) 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 (Dawkins), the pair embark on a delirious odyssey of sex, violence, and becoming one with the dirt.

"Cinedigm releases today the new trailer for Alex Phillips’ avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, as well as announces a November 8th premiere date on the Bloody Disgusting-powered streaming service Screambox. An Official Selection of the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival, where it took home a special jury mention from the festival’s New Flesh competition, the transgressive splatter comedy stars Phillip Andre Botello (The Art of Self-Defense), Trevor Dawkins (Easy), and Betsey Brown (The Scary of Sixty-First). Cinedigm is also planning a wide digital release of All Jacked Up and Full of Worms on November 8th followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor. Prior to digital release, the film will screen at a number of celebrated U.S. festivals, including Austin’s legendary genre event Fantastic Fest on September 27th, the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival on October 19th, and at the...

Worms… it’ll get you fucked up!

After having its World Premiere at Fantasia, Alex Phillips’s avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up and Full of Worms is heading to this month’s Fantastic Fest, in Austin, Texas.

It was announced ahead of the premiere that Cinedigm acquired the indie, which will join the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service Screambox this fall, followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor.

Here’s a brand new tripped-out, gross-out trailer for the film described as “a flamboyant, darkly outrageous new vision that mashes together retro grindhouse thrills with the squirmy depths of underground cinema.” Nerdist debuted the trailer this afternoon.

In the film, “Working at a seedy motel, maintenance man Roscoe (Phillip Andre Botello) 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...

Eerie Horror Fest announced yesterday seven more features for their jam-packed festival that is taking place at the Warner Theatre from October 5-8, 2022. Several filmmakers will be in attendance to introduce their films and meet audience members. Full details at the official website with the full program available here.

Bloody Disgusting is sponsoring the fest and is excited to give away several tickets and passes to some lucky readers. But for those who want to jump right in and get some tickets, we have the following promo codes available for immediate use.

Bloodyday = 5 off a Day Pass

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For those hoping to win access, all you need to do is follow @BDisgusting and @Eeriehorrorfest on Twitter and retweet this article, and we’ll randomly pick (10) winners to receive All Access passes, (10) winners receive day passes, and (10) winners will score a pair of Nosferatu tickets. Good luck!

Passes are available for purchase here.

Today, the Eerie Horror Fest announces 7 features and 1 short film in the second round of official selections to be screened, including the US premiere of Screambox’s History of the Occult.

Eerie Horror Fest is taking place at the Warner Theatre from October 5-8, 2022. Several filmmakers will be in attendance to introduce their films and meet audience members. Full details at the official website and full program is available here.

Here are the newly added film, including Screambox and Fandor’s All Jacked Up and Full of Worms.

History Of The Occult

US Premiere

Director: Cristian Ponce

South America

A supernatural thriller from the creators of Netflix’s The Kirlian Frequency. It’s ’60 minutes to Midnight’s’ last broadcast, the most famous late night news show on TV. Tonight’s host Adrian Marcato just might expose a conspiracy that links the Government to a coven.

All Jacked Up And Full...

Buoyed by the reception at Fantasia of his feature debut, “All Jacked Up and Full of Worms,” one of the fest’s buzz titles, Chicago-based writer-director Alex Phillips has set his follow-up, “Anything That Moves.”

The announcement comes just after “Worms” won a special mention at the 2022 Fantasia Awards, unveiled July 25.

Slated to shoot in Feb. 2023, in another fillip for Phillips’ burgeoning career, “Anything That Moves” is produced by Eddie Linker, a seminal figure on Chicago’s film scene who has executive or associate produced notable work from high-profile independent directors.

These take in Joe Swanberg; Alex Ross Perry; Josephine Decker and Zach Clark (2016 SXSW hit “Little Sister”).

Described by Phillips as “another adventurous low-budget project,” “Anything That Moves” turns on a beautiful and innocent food delivery boy who bikes through Chicago having sex for money until he gets caught up in a string of murders that traces back to someone in his bed.

It was a good day to be bad at Fantasia, as the Cheval Noir Award went to Karim Ouelhaj’s “Megalomaniac,” loosely inspired by the horrifying true story of the “Butcher of Mons.” The Belgian serial killer is believed to have murdered at least five women in the 1990s. He was never captured and his identity was never revealed.

The jury of the event’s 26th edition, including Charles Bramesco, Elza Kephart, Maitland McDonagh and Heather O’Neill, presided over by C. Robert Cargill, fell for its unapologetic darkness, calling “Megalomaniac” “the very sort of film that festivals exist to share.”

“[It’s] an astonishing, brutal piece of art that challenges the audience while simultaneously saying something deeply profound. It is a lush piece of cinema whose intent is to disturb and it succeeds at every turn,” they stated, also awarding Eline Schumacher for her committed performance as the killer’s daughter Martha,...

Audience winners to be announced at fest’s climax on August 3.

Karim Ouelhaj’s Belgian genre title Megalomaniac has been named best feature film at Fantasia International Film Festival, while July Jung has been declared best director for Next Sohee and Alexandre Desplat claimed the best score prize for Final Cut.

Megalomaniac earned the top prize at the Montreal festival’s 26th edition and return to an in-person event. Ouelhaj’s fourth film is inspired by the unsolved case of the Butcher of Mons serial killer who murdered five women from 1996-97.

‘Megalomaniac’: Fantasia Review

Eline Schumacher won an...

Cinedigm Acquires Official Fantasia Festival Selection All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms, Releases First Teaser After the film’s world premiere, the subversive psycho-horror will stream exclusively on Screambox this fall, followed by Fandor Cinedigm announced today that the Company has acquired all North American rights to Alex Phillips’s avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up …

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Worms… it’ll get you fucked up! It was announced ahead of the World Premiere at the ongoing Fantasia Film Festival that Cinedigm acquired Alex Phillips’s avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, which will join the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service Screambox this fall, followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor. Reviews […]

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The pantheon of films about imagined illicit substances is varied and wide. First time feature director Alex Phillips throws his hat into the ring with his avant horror buddy trip, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms. This story of a pair of nobodies caught in their own independent downward spirals colliding and bonding over a newly found addiction to hallucinogenic worms is disturbing, disgusting, demented, and occasionally delightful in its complete abandon of taste and logic. Roscoe (Phillip Andrew Botello) works maintenance at a local no-tell motel whose home life isn’t going so great. His hippie-dippy girlfriend keeps putting him through all sorts of uncomfortable “rituals” to help him transcend his mundane reality, all while bringing home another guy to spread the love....

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...

Is debut writer-director Alex Phillips trying to say something with All Jacked Up and Full of Worms? Or is he just trying to make viewers wish they were as high on hallucinogenic worms as his characters? Ask his target audience and they’ll probably laugh in your face for daring to presume they care. All they want is that out-there insanity writhing around in the slimy discharge left by a journey between nightmare and reality. Ask everyone else and they’ll tell you straight away they left the theater two minutes in—a choice I will not begrudge them, beyond the fact that doing so means they missed an unforgettable finale that almost makes sticking with this tour through Chicago’s seedy back alleys worth it.

That you must wade through a repetitive, nowhere-near-as-shocking-as-you-might-assume 50 minutes to finally reach that fever dream of intestine-strewn, quasi-sexual release isn’t an easy thing to overcome,...

Cinedigm announced today the North American acquisition of Alex Phillips’s avant-gutter psychedelic freakout All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, which will join the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service Screambox this fall, followed by an exclusive window on Cinedigm’s indie discovery platform Fandor. An Official Selection of the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival and set […]

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In a statement buy, Cinedigm has snapped up all North American rights to what it describes as “avant-gutter psychedelic freakout,” “All Jacked Up and Full of Worms” which is shaping up as one of the most memorable titles set for this year’s Fantasia Intl. Film Festival, which runs July 14 to Aug. 3 in Montreal.

Also billed by Cinedigm as a “transgressive splatter comedy,” the feature debut of Chicago writer-director Alex Phillips world premieres at Fantasia on July 16.

“All Jacked Up and Full of Worms” is then slated to stream exclusively this fall on Screambox, the genre SVOD service acquired by Cinedigm in Feb. 2021, followed by another exclusive window on Cinedigm indie platform, Fandor.

The deal was negotiated on behalf of Cinedigm by Brandon Hill, its manager of acquisitions, and by Phillips on behalf of the film. Paris-based Reel Suspects, one of Europe’s premier specialist genre sales agents, handles international...

World premiere set for July 16.

Cinedigm has acquired all North American rights to imminent Fantasia world premiere All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms.

Alex Phillips’s psychedelic splatter comedy debuts at the festival on July 16 and stars Phillip Andre Botello, Trevor Dawkins and Betsey Brown.

All Jacked Up and Full Of Worms centres on a motel maintenance man Roscoe who stumbles upon a hallucinogenic worm and embarks with his new lover on an odyssey of sex, violence and becoming one with the dirt.

The cast includes Eva Fellows, Mike Lopez, Carol Rhyu and Sammy Arechar. Produces are Phillips, Georgia Bernstein and Ben Gojer.

“Face Off” helmer John Woo will receive a Career Achievement Award during Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, about to celebrate its 26th edition. The Hong Kong filmmaker is currently working on “Silent Night,” starring Joel Kinnaman and Kid Cudi.

“I defy anyone to watch ‘Bullet in the Head,’ ‘Hard Boiled’ or ‘The Killer’ and not walk away wanting to break down the shots and make a movie. His use of camera movement, close-ups, the ways he would block and choreograph, it’s astonishing to look at,” Fantasia’s artistic director Mitch Davis told Variety, noting the “unexpected poetry” of Woo’s work.

“They are such unconventionally soulful films. I wish we could somehow unleash a flock of doves in the cinema when he steps onto the stage. Backlit.”

The festival, which will unspool July 14 – Aug. 3, has also unveiled its first wave of titles, starting with a selection of world...

The 17th annual Boston Underground Film Festival is set to explode all over the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square on March 25-29.

Opening Night: The fun kicks off on the 25th at 7:30 p.m. with the exciting new flick from the always amazing Astron-6 collective, The Editor, an homage to the brutal Giallo movies of the ’70s and ’80s directed by Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy. This will be followed by the restored version of the legendary cult classic Gone With the Pope by the notorious Duke Mitchell.

Closing Night: Goodnight Mommy the debut feature film by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, will screen at 8:30 p.m. on the 29th and is a nightmarish vision of familial dread when twin brothers believe their cosmetically altered mother is literally not the woman she used to be.

Other features include a mix of horror, like Matt O’Mahoney’s...