A bad break-up leads to a full-blown breakdown and a near-death experience in Oliver Bernsen’s hallucinatory feature debut. Some are calling it a body-horror movie, a label it largely earns because of the director’s predilection for strange shots of unidentified gore and viscera that pop up throughout, but the oddly titled Bagworm is arguably more of a black comedy — that is, if you believe that the films of Rick Alverson, notably 2015’s Entertainment, are funnier than the Hangover trilogy (which is a niche point of view, to be sure).
Peter Falls stars as Carroll, an everyman whose fall from grace is pretty staggering considering that he doesn’t seem to have very far to fall in the first place. Indeed, the plot, as such, isn’t so much a narrative as a string of minor but incremental disasters that accrue after Carroll steps on a rusty nail in the back garden.
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