Crispin Glover is a legendary Hollywood eccentric, famous for his role in Back to the Future, as well as for printing his home phone number in the odd rock album he put out in the 80s (really, we used to have the LP at KZSC).
Josh Modell of the Onion AV Club attended a screening of Glover’s feature film, “What Is It?” and describes it thusly:
Then, the movie. In an interview you can read elsewhere on this site, Glover insisted to our own Keith Brammer that What Is It? has a narrative structure, and you’ve gotta believe that it does to him, but 72 minutes of strange encounters portrayed by actors with Down’s Syndrome (and Glover himself) won’t be following any traditional story arc. Instead, there’s a lot of snail killing, some swastikas, Shirley Temple, a minstrel, murder, an alternate universe (apparently the main character’s inner self), and more. Did I mention the naked man with cerebral palsy who’s manually stimulated (at length) by a naked woman wearing a monkey mask? Yeah, that happens. And he’s resting inside a giant clam shell at the time.