![]() ![]() The series is based a 1996 novel of the same name by Todd Grimson and is created by Lenore Zion and Nick Antosca. The show certainly plays with a number of genre tropes, but whether or not Brand New Cherry Flavor is scary really depends on your tolerance for horror. Desperate for revenge, Lisa makes a deal with Boro (Catherine Keener), a witch doctor who promises, “For you? I could hurt someone.”īoro has Lisa undergo a gross ritual that binds Lisa to Lou so that Boro can “set his life on fire.” What ensues is a surreal tale that includes zombies, otherworldly monsters, and an unfortunate number of cats vomited up by Lisa. #CHERRY FLAVOR MOVIE#In Netflix’s Brand New Cherry Flavor, Rosa Salazar plays Lisa Nova, a budding 1990s horror director who gets her movie stolen by a sleazy producer named Lou (Eric Lange). ![]() She’s a performer who always picks the right part, usually coolly confident women with something sinister under the skin. Here she’s an immortal ghoul she’s a warm shoulder to cry on, too. Her power is as assured in demonic realms as it is in the City of Angels.Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The former is spiky and single-minded, an often unlikable protagonist who eases the viewer into strange waters with wide eyes that never wink at what’s happening. And Keener is a marvel. Salazar and Keener work a charisma curse. Think post-irony David Cronenberg, like if a millennial directed a folk-horror remake of “Videodrome.” It’s also one of the many arcane goings-on that are hardly explained, which makes the horror feel all the more real. A wannabe starlet traipses around a loft apartment in full mummy-style facial bandages, waiting for her plastic surgery to take, and it’s par for the course.Įvery episode contains at least one image truly grisly or foul, usually involving a body in some state of bloody distress. Things squirm out of eye sockets orifices appear where they should not be. Memorably, as part of her deal with Boro, Lisa regularly vomits up kittens - really - and it’s not nearly as whimsical as that even halfway implies. of Lisa and her friends is seedy and shiny. A witch can bring a corpse as her plus-one to a Hollywood party, and no one will notice. “Brand New Cherry Flavor” nails a certain feral quality of its chosen era. Mass-market schlock with practical effects that you could almost feel, demonic possessions imagined by a film auteur for prime-time TV, bad dreams you could take home and rewind. It's no wonder that our appetite for nostalgia has also led us to revisit what scared us most not so long ago. 'The Suicide Squad' review: You will believe a shark can cry (and eat people alive) ![]() (OK, fine, an incomplete selection: “Dead Alive,” “The Bad Seed” and “Devilman” come to mind.) Need I list off all the VHS covers that made me avert my gaze when I walked past them at the Blockbuster on Brodie Lane, lest the very image invade my eyes and take root in my immortal soul? This is the era of kids shows like “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” and “Eerie, Indiana,” and even the surprisingly sophisticated and macabre “Batman: The Animated Series.” At the school library, the Stephen Gammell-illustrated “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” series was in hot demand, though not from me. The Satanic Panic reigned in homes across America, but as a kid forbidden to watch plenty of things, I can tell you that anything could seem just Not Quite Right. #CHERRY FLAVOR TV#Content-wise, the mid-1980s and early ‘90s unleashed the nightmares of David Lynch into the mainstream, like “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks.” Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” comic books refracted one of DC Comics’ old World War II-era properties through the darkest gothic dreams Death herself was a main character. “The X-Files" was a hit - hard to imagine that they could have gotten away with things like the remora-lipped Flukeman on network TV even 10 years earlier. Though experience will vary by generation, the era of basic cable and Blockbuster seems not far off, even three or four decades later. ![]()
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