| www.RachelOrmont.com | |
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| Directed by | Peter Vack |
| Written by | Peter Vack |
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| Cinematography | Barton Cortright |
| Edited by | Brad Turner |
| Music by | Eli Keszler |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
www.RachelOrmont.com (stylized with a lowercase 'w') is a 2024 American experimental sci-fi drama film directed by Peter Vack. It is his sophomore feature film, starring Betsey Brown, Chloe Cherry, [1] and Dasha Nekrasova.
Rachel Ormont lives in an all-too-familiar, decidedly dystopian, alternate universe where she tries to navigate a life of feverish monotony. Raised in captivity in the carefully controlled, craftily curated clutches of an advertising agency, Rachel’s humanity is imprinted by and organized around commodity and perception. Her parasocial relationship with the product being advertised—a popstar named Mommy 6.0—blossoms, blooms, mutates, eats itself, is regurgitated and reconstituted in an insane sci-fi roller coaster ride. [2]
Variety announced the production of www.RachelOrmont.com in July 2022, calling it a "sci-fi drama." The film, was described as a “psychedelic technosatire about growing up in captivity.” [3]
The project was produced by The Ion Pack in association with Gummy Films, Simone Films and Fast Rainbow Films. [3]
The domain name 'www.rachelormont.com' features a still of Rachel clasping her hands and looking up while dramatic music plays. It also features a contact button that connects the user to a Rachel-themed email. [4]
www.RachelOrmont.com had its world premiere at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on 25 July 2024. [2] It then premiered at SXSW Sydney in October, before appearing at multiple venues across the United States. [5]
As of October 2025, www.RachelOrmont.com holds a 3.2/5 average weighted rating on Letterboxd, and a 5.5/10 average rating on IMDb. [6] [7]
In her Letterboxd review, Ivy Wolk announced she "lost her virginity because of this movie." [8]
Forbes wrote: "This fictional tale collapses the internet, theater, the movie screen into a dystopian world where, with the creation of a world blurring online and offline, the three merge into a secret fourth thing" [9]
Nick Malone, of PopMatters, wrote that the film was "a filthy and absurd midnight movie determined to fry brains and flip stomachs; a film so terminally online that even the milder scenes would, as the kids say, “kill a Victorian child“. The second feature-length effort from NYC’s Peter Vack following his 2017 debut Assholes (a grossout “romance” about addiction and anal fetish staring the director’s sister and parents), RachelOrmont is a provocation of a different breed: one that dares the squeamish to reckon with the schizoid darkness happening on cellphones all around them; and for those already part of its world to feel the vice grip they’re in." [10]
David Wilensky found the film "darkly, outrageously funny. It is also, for want of a better word, utterly gross" and cautioned: "Do not see this with anyone you’re related to of another generation. It will go poorly." [11]
In 2024, Filmmaker reported that the film was achieving "“cult hit” status. [12]
