Films

Whilst trying to come to terms with her grandmother’s death, Sheri finds refuge in a video club with her group of film-loving friends. But a meteor shower and a series of unexplained disappearances herald the arrival of an extraterrestrial entity capable of consuming the entire world, forcing them to save the world. Following “The Serpent’s Skin”, Alice Maio Mackay returns to MOTELX with a sci-fi buddy movie that blends alien invasions, slacker humour and camp horror. Produced by Jane Schoenbrun (“I Saw the TV Glow”) and starring Brandon Flynn (“Hellraiser”), Jess McLeod, and Annapurna Sriram (“Fuck Toys”), “Our Effed Up World” pays homage to films such as “Killer Klowns from Outer Space”, without abandoning the unique, queer perspective that characterises the director’s work; at just 21 years old, she is already one of the most promising names in contemporary genre cinema.