Eduardo Reck Miranda, a composer, is seen playing the piano, while "jamming" with sounds produced by the slime mold as it gets electrically stimulated.

[3] The magazine also describes the film as "good-humored but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full of trippy visuals" and concludes "this science-fair bonanza would have been a midnight staple in the era of “The Hellstrom Chronicles.”"[3] Screendaily.com comments that there is a "visual similarity to the alien invader in that 1950s sci-fi classic The Blob" and that "The mood of the film is enhanced thanks to the soundtrack by sometime Sonic Youth member Jim O’Rourke, which helps enhance an aural background to often-hypnotic images.

"[2] Screendaily.com also mentions that the film showcases the classification debate centering on the slime molds as to the exact kind of life form that they are supposed to be.

The magazine praises the balance the film strikes between hosting the views of experts and showing how the molds develop and grow and even find their way through mazes in search for food such as oats,[2][6] which is placed by researchers as "bait".

The magazine also mentions "a pretty hilarious thought experiment where a gaggle of humans turns out to be barely as smart as a slime mould".

But like its subjects, which grow beneath our feet in the undergrowth of forests, it should thrive in special engagements and at festivals whose attendees seek things most moviegoers wouldn't think to look at.