In spite of the seemingly endless possibilities brought on by the streaming era, I’m hard-pressed to think of the last thing I saw that was this fucking gross. Most of its imagery recalls better projects like Mulholland Drive or eXistenZ, but Antosca and Zion’s commitment to telling a deeply unsettling occult story is, for lack of a better word, bewitching. The latter comparison comes when Brand New Cherry Flavor digs into its occult elements, all of which come with a healthy amount of body horror.īrand New Cherry Flavor - the mildly obnoxious title comes from the novel of the same name by Todd Grimson, but is never really explained - isn’t terribly clever in cribbing from two of cinema’s most beloved weirdo auteurs.
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The former is evident in the lens the series takes to Los Angeles, one obsessed with foreboding, winding highways and nonsensically dreamy imagery. Put frankly, Brand New Cherry Flavor comes across as a shameless ripoff of Davids Lynch and Cronenberg.
The first and easiest mistake in sizing up this occult horror-noir from Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion would be to reduce it to its overly apparent influences. But he betrays her, so she asks a witch (Catherine Keener) to curse him, which ends up costing more than Nova bargained for. Then Nova meets producer-director Lou Burke (Eric Lange) who agrees to help her realize her vision. Much of the first episode is dedicated to the work that goes into getting noticed in Hollywood: parties and meetings and conversations over drinks, all of it suspect and drenched in ominous light, because exploitation is in the very air. Nova ( Alita: Battle Angel star Rosa Salazar) arrives in early-’90s Hollywood with a shocking short film under her belt, determined to expand it into a feature debut.
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Brand New Cherry Flavor begins plainly by comparison: Movie director Lisa N. That isn’t necessarily obvious from the start. It’s important to know all this beforehand diving into the show, because this isn’t the wildest thing Brand New Cherry Flavor has in store. A zombie then surreptitiously collects the kitten and brings it to a witch, who drinks its blood. Upon closer inspection, it’s always a writhing newborn kitten with wet white fur. Each time, she doubles over, convulses in pain, and heaves until a slimy mass exits her mouth and splats on the floor. In almost every one of the eight episodes in Netflix’s limited series Brand New Cherry Flavor, the protagonist barfs up a live kitten.
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