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." 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 starring 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." Writing for
J. The Jewish News of Northern California, 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." In 2024,
Filmmaker reported that the film was achieving "'cult hit' status". == References ==