After hearing loud bellowing sounds from the forest, he rushes back inside his cabin. At night, Sean makes a fire and throws petrol on it, calling out to the demon saying he wants to repent his human form. He takes the trap home and feeds the possum peanut butter off his knife. Sean goes out to find his trap, which has caught a possum. He calls out that he plans to summon the demon tonight, and he will give him whatever he wants, even his own body. He goes out to set animal traps in the forest and then goes out on the lake on a boat. Without his pills Sean’s mental health begins to deteriorate. Cortez refuses to go get them from his home as it is a 3-hour round trip. Cortez and Sean cannot find a yellow bag which contains Sean’s pills that Cortez was meant to bring. However, it is just his friend Cortez who is here to deliver him his supplies. Sean is shocked to hear a loud knock at the door. Sean becomes increasingly nervous about sounds that he can hear from around the forest and locks himself in his caravan with his axe. After this Sean goes to take his pills and realises that these are the last one and there are none left. However, nothing happens Sean comforts his cat who is startled.
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While practising some alchemy, Sean hears a loud bang which startles him and causes him to call for his cat to run for it. Sean leads a simple life in his caravan, going out to collect water, wood and to go fishing. Sean lives his life in the forest alone accompanied by only his cat Caspar and experiments with various chemicals and substances according to an old alchemy book he possesses. The film begins with the protagonist, Sean, alone in the forest with only his caravan which he lives in.
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The film was an official selection at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival. The Alchemist cookbook was released on an alternate release strategy, as a pay what you want film, in both theatres and on BitTorrent bundle. The film breaks the conventional boundaries of genre, as elements of a black comedy, horror and a psychological thriller are all incorporated and intertwined. As his mental condition deteriorates the line of what is real and what is not becomes blurred, and as his chemistry turns to black magic, he instead summons a demon. "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. The Alchemist Cookbook is a horror comedy film directed by Joel Potrykus.