Fat Fleshy Fingers is an anthology film that draws its inspiration from the lyrics of Neutral Milk Hotel’s seminal psychedelic folk album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. It’s made up of all-new segments directed by alumni filmmakers of the Sick ’n’ Wrong Film Festival. The thread that ties it all together is the appearance of “a nasty little sexually transmitted parasite that bestows otherworldly effects on its host.”

Starting with “The King of Carrot Flowers,” directed and written by Sophia Cacciola, interprets the song in quite a strange little way. I mean, it is a song that has the lyrics, “And this is the room / One afternoon I knew I could love you / And from above you, how I sank into your soul / Into that secret place where no one dares to go.” Somehow that involves Michael St. Michaels from The Greasy Strangler telling his dying granddaughter to tell people to go fuck themselves and a mummy.

Other segments include “Oh Comely” directed by Rebecca Daugherty and Anthony Cousins (who also made the quite good Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes), Heather Cunningham’s “The Point When You Let Go,” Some Stranger’s Stomach” by Michael Elliot Dennis, Lauren Flinner’s “We Move to Feel,” Sara Nieminen and Artturi Rostén’s “The Fool,” “Blow Dee Sky Jesus Christ” by director Zach Strum and writer Michah Vassau and Iris Sucres’ “All the Different Ways to Die.”

“So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving / And pluck all your silly strings and bend all your notes for me,” are the words of one of the many songs that inspired this film. I’d compare it to the latest of the late night Adult Swim with no filter or anything holding anyone back. If you love the album that it comes from or experimental animation or just need your mind exploded, this is ready for you.

Fat Fleshy Fingers was watched as part of The GenreBlast Film Festival which is from August 31 to September 3. All screenings for GenreBlast are held at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Winchester, Virginia. Passes are on sale through The Alamo Drafthouse Winchester. Learn more at the official site.