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The Alchemist Cookbook
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Suffering from delusions of fortune, a young hermit hides out in the forest, only to land in hot water when he summons an ancient demon in the backwoods of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Suffering from delusions of fortune, a young hermit hides out in the forest, only to land in hot water when he summons an ancient demon in the backwoods of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Director:
Joel Potrykus
Joel Potrykus
Country:
United States
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October 07, 2016
Thrillingly unclassifiable.
October 05, 2016
Whatever The Alchemist Cookbook has to express, it expresses through scenes that feel as though someone were dared to do something while a camera rolled, in the near-extinct tradition of the transgressive underground movie.
July 06, 2016
While "The Alchemist Cookbook" certainly won't be for everyone, it will surely delight and surprise those who can grok its idiosyncratic content.
November 05, 2016
Potrykus's film beats the recent Blair Witch revamp in making the woods a place where a Terrible Thing could be lurking behind every twig, especially-and most impressively-during the daylight.
November 03, 2016
The movie peaks at its midpoint with a chilling nocturnal encounter that blurs the line between hallucination and the genuinely supernatural; the rest of the movie pivots around it, but slowly.
October 07, 2016
Though The Alchemist Cookbook could easily be labeled a work of psychological horror, it transcends the familiar trappings of that genre to evoke something more human and empathetic than simply conveying the terrors of the human mind.
December 15, 2016
A different kind of horror film.
October 06, 2016
"Cabin In The Woods" type horror meets isolation and insanity for what could be one of the year's more interesting genre watches in The Alchemist Cookbook.
November 01, 2016
A chapter-driven series of sketchy scenes powered by a striking, manic performance by lead actor Ty Hickson.
November 29, 2016
Nurturing an unsettling intensity in the film's final moments, Potrykus' work is difficult but invigorating.