The small team of Potrykus, Hickson, and Cheatom do a fine job of serving up a scary good time. But there are also scenes that move well beyond one's ability to rationalize scary things, blurring into pure fear. Voices are heard and dark figures are seen at a distance in a forest thicket, visually suggesting the tangled shadows in Sean's head. When he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secret, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous. 'Sean' is an outcast who isolates himself from society to practice alchemy, accompanied by only his cat. The film was produced by Oscilloscope Laboratories and by producers Andrew D. The film stars Ty Hickson as 'Sean' and Amari Cheatom as 'Cortez'. The film was released on the 7th of October 2016 in New York City. When Sean's friend Cortez (Amari Cheatom) shows up with supplies but has forgotten a concerned Sean's prescription medicine, things turn bad. The Alchemist Cookbook, the latest from writer/director Joel Potrykus ( Buzzard, Ape ), is a certifiably strange object: a mumblecorish character sketch that gradually, amiably slouches into full. Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods with his cat Kaspar. The Alchemist Cookbook is a horror film directed by Joel Potrykus. Chief among these is a frenzied effort to summon a demon using a book of occult spells. While Sean's daily routines seem logical (filtering river water, setting animal traps outdoors), there are obvious signs of mental illness in his behavior. Sean (Hickson) lives in a battered trailer in the woods with his only companion-a grey cat named Kaspar.

Writer-director Joel Potrykus's The Alchemist Cookbook serves up a chapter-driven series of sketchy scenes powered by a striking, manic performance from lead actor Ty Hickson.

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