In an interview with Digital Trends, writer/director AlexPhillips explains psychosis and morality in his new horror, AllJackedUpandFullofWorms.
Admittedly, I have no idea how to describe what I witnessed in All Jacked Up and Full of Worms. The film depicts the adventures of Roscoe, a janitor at a motel “whose girlfriend has brought another man home for strange rituals,” and Benny, a peculiar man “trying to manifest a baby from an inanimate sex doll.” When the duo ingests hallucinogenic worms, all hell breaks loose as Roscoe and Benny spiral out of control on their drug-infused bender.
Yeah, you took the words out of my mouth. The main theme to me, at least in one word, would be psychosis. But, I wanted it to be less from a psychological realism of storytelling because I didn’t think that was honest about the experience of psychosis. Many characters are doing bad things, but I don’t know if they’re necessarily bad people, especially Roscoe and Benny. How did you view these characters? Are they morally good but under the influence of the worms, or are they in a gray area?
Yeah. All those scenes and all the dialogue turn it all into less of a static idea and more like a process of feeling around. To me, it makes the movie more dynamic or active. There was a moment when the first time we were shooting the scene with Benny and he was opening up his package to pull out the baby, there was a back and forth between Trevor and me to figure out what was going on here.
It was cool to go into the workshop. There were really long nights where we were filling up hundred-foot hoses with worms and goo. Also, [while] working on the choreography of the cocoon thing at the very end, we were talking about how to shoot this and stuff. A lot of my input was trying to figure out how the coverage would work and how to cut together like a mask transforming from one moment to the next.
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