What Is It? is a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, darkly comic film from the singularly bizarre mind of Crispin Hellion Glover, who many know as George McFly from Back to the Future. The film is the first entry in a planned trilogy directed by Glover, followed by It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. and continued with the yet to be released It Is Mine. It won’t disappoint fans of Glover’s offbeat sensibilities and eccentric taste, but it’s likely to repel just about everyone else with its many blatant affronts to political correctness.

Featuring a cast comprised almost entirely of Down Syndrome-affected actors, the film is a Dadaist experimentation that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes.