Based on Hooroo Jackson’s graphic novel, Aimy in a Cage is his dazzling 2015 cinematic debut, starring Allisyn Snyder, Crispin Glover, Paz de la Huerta, and Academy Award Nominee Terry Moore. Hooroo Jackson’s first film Aimy in a Cage makes its long-awaited debut on Blu-ray. The film is renowned for being one of the most insane films ever made.
Allisyn Snyder gives a legendary performance as brooding rebel teenager Aimy Micry, a girl on the warpath against everyone and everything around her. During a global virus outbreak, her evil family sends her into shock treatment. Aimy fights them every way she can, leading to increasingly violent consequences.
With a luscious set, a masterful psychedelic prog rock OST, and the soul of the film peppered with the pop songs of Joanna Wang from her two albums, The Adventures of Bernie the Schoolboy and Galaxy Crisis: The Strangest Midnight Broadcast.
Aimy in a Cage is a Hooroo Jackson experience. The ensemble stars Crispin Glover as an evil pimp, Paz de la Huerta as a whacked out socialite, and Academy Award Nominee Terry Moore giving a signature performance as the regal and wicked matriarch Grandma Micry. Then there is Allisyn herself, cutting through an emotional range like no one has ever done. She is a force of nature, all of funny, wild, brooding, raging, sympathetic, and sometimes even villainous.
The Blu-Ray includes two cuts of the film: the expanded musical cut, and the Director’s cut workprint.
“A teenage orphan and delinquent rebels against her evil family during a global virus outbreak.”
In 2012, Jackson sold off most of his possessions and invested in Bitcoin at the average price of ten dollars per coin. This decision was roundly mocked by his entire social circle. Hooroo, much like his later work in AI, went around the internet pushing Bitcoin facing constant blocks, bans and ridicule. When Bitcoin rocketed to over $1,200 per coin in 2014, Hooroo held the entire way, even as those same ones denigrating his decision were telling him to sell all the way up. He managed to sell the top and avert the historic MtGox disaster, turning around and using his coins to finance his first feature film, Aimy in a Cage. In turn, it is the first Bitcoin financed feature film, made at a total budget of over $500,000.
The film rocked the 2015 Portland Film Festival, where it was the talk of the festival and ended up winning Hooroo the Director’s Prize. Over the years, the film has gone on to have a passionate and die-hard fanbase.
In August 2024, when releasing his new film “DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict”, Jackson dusted off the Aimy OST. Outside the context of the visuals, the original score by Sasha Smith and electronic band Metempsychosis was not just good, it was a psychedelic prog rock masterpiece. Jackson put his new film aside and spent the next day arranging and mastering the OST before sending it for an official release, preserving the soundtrack forever on digital, CD, and vinyl.
Aimy in a Cage finally made its long-awaited Blu-ray the same week, including two cuts of the film; the expanded musical workprint and the director’s cut workprint.
