Austin’s queer fitness queen, Erica Nix, leads a cast of Austin queerlebrities in a fantasia of goopy-nonsense and heaven-sent scatological logic. Channeling John Waters and Terry Gilliam, Erica may just be the mayor Austin needs, if Austin needs a mayor who dreamwalks like Freddy Krueger with a manicure. Join Erica as she explores religion, psychedelic rituals, therapeutic healing, and politics. Will Erica’s inner truth set her free or set the world on fire?
It’s every bit as gloriously magical, beautifully bonkers, and highly relatable as I hoped it would be.
– Morbidly Beautiful (8-27-22) Interview with Erica by Stephanie Malone
Nix has a knack for comedy and comes across as a Daffy Duck Dante being guided through a queer inferno […] Erica’s First Holy S**t definitely pushes the envelope after licking the s**t out of it. Put this movie in your face and start screaming with delight.
– Film Threat (8-30-22) Review by Michael Talbot-Haynes
The entire movie has a let’s-put-on-a-play-in-the barn creative spirit. A low-budget but high-concept romp that satirizes several levels of current thought. Think the spine of early John Waters films but with compassion. Nobody eats dog shit here.
Nix’s disarming ability to make her unique mid-pandemic midlife crisis – about relationships, jobs, destiny, her city – is accessible and engaging. That vivacity blossoms into the visual style, a dizzy mix of John Waters, Liam Kyle Sullivan, and the handmade avant-garde flair of early Sesame Street. It’s a suitable mixture for a film with a serious message about never taking yourself too seriously.
– Austin Chronicle (8-31-22) Review by Richard Whittaker
Camp, colorful and sexy, Nix’s film uses humor to explore a serious issue.
– Queer Guru (8-30-22) Review by Ris Fatah
A weird unique labor of love and will be mind-baffling for some audiences but will soon become an instant cult classic.
– Infamous Horrors (8-25-22) Interview with Erica by AJ Friar
[…] a film that strikes at the heart of why I, and so many others, love Austin despite its flaws.
– Hyperreal Film Club (1-9-23) Review by James Scott
A gleefully hallucinogenic mockumentary that has to be seen to be believed, and even then you just might not […] Whether you’ll be charmed by this offering, as I admittedly I was at times, or whether Erica’s First Holy Shit will cause you to switch your political affiliation to something more rightwing, depends a whole lot on whether you are a fan of early John Waters and Jack Smith films, have a crush on Annie Sprinkle, or have a supply of Alice B. Toklas brownies on hand.
