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Brand new cherry flavor7/25/2023 ![]() What makes the show most unnerving are the more realistic moments of sexism that Lisa faces in the male-dominated film industry. It’s certainly less scary than shows like Haunting of Hill House and American Horror Story, which is helped by the fact that Brand New Cherry Flavor is also comedic at times. But much of the horror elements are such a mixed bag that you may find yourself feeling more distracted than anything. ![]() Antosca and Zion make use of a lot of flashing lights, tilted hallways, and blurring around the edges of the frame. Many of these scenes, particularly as Lisa is first undergoing the ritual, are filmed like a hallucinatory fever dream, which some people may find unsettling. It’s all very strange - and likely meant to echo Lisa’s own creative and horror film sensibilities - but is it scary? Honestly, not really, unless you’re very inexperienced with watching horror. And this is all before we get into Boro, who walks around with a zombie entourage and drinks the blood of kittens.ĬATHERINE KEENER as BORO and ROSA SALAZAR as LISA NOVA in episode 101 of BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR. When a door spontaneously appears on her bedroom floor, she finds a ladder leading down to a dark void. She watches cats feast on a coyote, wonders why her plants have begun growing down through the floor, and is stalked by a jittering, otherworldly entity. As Lisa’s curse ramps up, she begins to dream of a woman whose face looks like it’s been scooped away. Similar to Hannibal and Channel Zero, Brand New Cherry Flavor is full of bizarre imagery filmed in creative ways. ![]() Antosca has written for horror shows like The Actand Hannibal, while both Zion and Antosca worked together on the Syfy’s creepypasta-inspired show Channel Zero. 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. ![]() 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). ![]()
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