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  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Young outcast Sean (Ty Hickson) has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for authority, he’s fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black m...

Directed By: Joel Potrykus

Written By: Joel Potrykus

  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 22 m

The Alchemist Cookbook

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
73
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary Young outcast Sean (Ty Hickson) has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for authority, he’s fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black m...

Directed By: Joel Potrykus

Written By: Joel Potrykus

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83
Oct 5, 2016
It’s difficult to imagine what a script for all of this would even look like. 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.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 25, 2016
This unclassifiable miniature involving a man in a trailer in the woods trying to contact the Dark Lord is as funny and distinctive as it is near-plotless.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 3, 2016
So compelling is writer-director Joel Potrykus’ unnerving scenario — with its largely ambiguous tone of horror dramatically offset at times by explicit frights — that a viewer isn’t necessarily bothered by a lack of basic story information about who, what, when, where and why.
By Tom Keogh FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 6, 2016
Its methods may be unconventional, but Joel Potrykus never loses grip of the slippery strangeness.
By Matt Donato FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 25, 2016
I bet another viewing would reveal missed details, but the threat of being wrong and finding myself enduring the slow, quiet madness again scares me.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sob Noisse Movies, Uncorked Productions, DropDrop Studios, Easy Open Productions, Oscilloscope
Release Date Oct 7, 2016
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards

Middle Coast Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Fantastic Cinema Festival
• 1 Nomination
Champs-Élysées Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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