Their creator has matured with each new film, but they’ve made no such change. They instead resemble scared children, hiding rather than angrily locking themselves away. While Ape and Buzzard ’s not-quite anti-heroes resemble scorned adolescents, The Alchemist Cookbook and Relaxer ’s monsters are both more isolated and more pathetic. Their obsessive pursuits and disgusting fates are the same, but their attitudes have changed. Despite growing more and more physically monstrous, his characters have only become more sympathetic. Through four features, Joel Potrykus has carved out his own unique niche in American independent cinema and created his own unique, instantly recognizable kind of monster. In the finale of a two-part series, Bennett Glace dissects the Chaotic Neutral in Joel Potrykus’ The Alchemist Cookbook and Relaxer
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