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Watch: The Alchemist Cookbook 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – Suffering from delusions of fortune, a young hermit hides out in the forest hoping to crack an ancient mystery, but pays a price for his mania..
Plot: Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.
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Ratings:

	5.2/10 Votes: 1,644
	80% | RottenTomatoes
	73/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 39 Popularity: 2.872 | TMDB

Reviews:

Slow burn burns bright
I knew this movie was going to be slow the moment I started it. Which is why I stopped watching it within 10 minutes in. I couldn’t stand the slow pace. I wanted a story to watch! Give it a few months and I’m bored so I throw The Alchemist Cookbook on again as a way to lull myself to sleep. I don’t know what I was expecting. I guess I expected this movie to put me to sleep. There’s nothing in this movie’s story to keep you watching it. There’s no hook, there’s no deep significant lesson, there’s absolutely no resolve; BUT THE ACTING. For one relatively unknown actor to carry this kind of film absolutely blows my mind. The acting of this film is what kept me glued to my screen. After a while I stopped caring what the story was. I didn’t care for the script. Watching Ty work wonders with his character blew my mind. It’s very rare, at least in my experience, to see movies like this get saved by an actor you’ve never heard about. This movie was definitely saved by Ty’s acting. I wouldn’t recommend this movie to a lot of people but that’s only because I don’t think they would appreciate it. For me the acting alone made this movie watchable. I’m not so sure it would be the same for others.

Not really a horror film. Or a film about alchemy.
Alchemy is, at its essence, the use of natural laws to transmute a thing from a lower state to a higher one. In the popular imagination, this involves transmuting the common base metal lead into the rare metal gold, but the principles of transmutation apply via correspondence on several other levels: the transmutation of mortal flesh to immortal flesh, the transmutation of deindividuated/fractured consciousness into an individuated or whole one, or, most tantalizingly, transmutation of the soul.

One wonders whether in the lore about alchemy whether or not the result you got was based on your intentions. Here, an insane young man in the apparent middle of the Michigan woods in a trailer (there’s your Raimi), is seeking what appears to be metallic gold to buy himself a mansion.

The transmutation goes exactly in the wrong direction.

The Jarmusch element is, of course, the fish-out-of-water-and-time aspect of a guy in a Minor Threat tee shirt in the modern age with conceits of being an alchemist, not dissimilar to Ghost Dog who imagines himself a Samurai and is, like Ghost Dog, not completely sane.

Well, that’s an understatement.

The film feels like a horror film but is really about madness. Although our lead does not narrate the film, he carries it, and we wind up with a classic unreliable narrator problem: is anything we’re seeing real, or are we looking at events through the delusion of a mentally ill man who has stopped taking his pills?

What I suppose is interesting here is the examination of one specific manifestation of insanity – in this case, one that is tied into the occult.

We see things in the woods we aren’t sure is really there. Fire flares up and we’re not sure if that’s really happening. We’re not 100% sure what happens to the likable and hilarious Cortez (but we can make an educated guess that it has nothing actually to do with demons.)

The titles and marketing for this film combine two of my interests – alchemy (and fellow students of alchemy, this is not the film you’re looking for), with the lettering from the infamous Anarchist Cookbook — an apt combination of things. As with the Anarchist Cookbook which is full of recipes which are reputed to be unsafe or may blow up in your face, so too alchemy here with its noxious fumes, debts to demons, and so forth.

Part of the problem with marketing this film is there’s no way to classify it. The “horror” bucket is what you settle on because it doesn’t fit anywhere else, but a serious horror fan is likely to be annoyed by this mostly plotless film. Any verbal description isn’t going to match the reality of the film, which is a patient (or slow, depending on how you look at it) study of a man who thinks he’s bargaining with demons for gold, but is, in fact, schizophrenic.

All the fixin’s are there: paranoia, hallucinations, fear, and self-abuse.

I liked it a lot. I actually thought the two leads did a fantastic job with a script which must have been puzzling when they first encountered it.

But alas, as someone who is waiting for something like a film version of The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, it looks like I’m going to be waiting for something about alchemy which isn’t so full of darkness.

Still, gutsy, original independent film and one thing it isn’t, is derivative.

Just know going in that this is an exploration of broken psychology, and not a horror film in the classic sense of that term.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-MA
Genre Comedy, Drama, Horror
Director Joel Potrykus
Writer Joel Potrykus
Actors Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom, Fiji
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Digital
Cinematographic Process DV
Printed Film Format N/A