After premiering at Tribeca last summer, director Joel Potrykus‘ new movie Vulcanizadora is now headed our way from Oscilloscope Laboratories, and we’ve got the poster debut. In the upcoming Vulcanizadora, “Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting […]
After premiering at Tribeca last summer, director Joel Potrykus‘ new movie Vulcanizadora is now headed our way from Oscilloscope Laboratories, and we’ve got the poster debut.
In the upcoming Vulcanizadora, “Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can’t stay hidden for long.”
Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro described in her Tribeca review, “The latest from writer/director Joel Potrykus (Relaxer, The Alchemist Cookbook) isn’t horror at all, but it is a heavy metal genre-shifter worth checking out. Vulcanizadora revisits characters introduced in Potrykus’s Buzzard: Marty Jackitansky (Joshua Burge) and Derek Skiba (Potrykus). The pair feel trapped in time, or adolescence, to be more specific, as they embark on a camping trip in the Michigan woods. For a while, it’s all good fun as Derek amuses himself with the wilderness or glow sticks. But the more their journey wears on, the clearer it becomes that their plan is poised to derail with disastrous results.”
“Potrykus’s latest begins as a darkly funny heavy metal comedy that deftly shifts into a poignant existential drama, stitched together by a shocking act that toe-dips ever so briefly into horror,” Meagan’s capsule review out of Tribeca continued. “Shot on film, Vulcanizadora impresses in the way it explores heady questions through light banter or darkly funny gags before pulling the rug out from under you. Two ill-equipped friends trapped in place by societal expectations give way to something far more somber and bleak. Potrykus helms with edgy style, but it’s his and Burge’s transformative performances that carry this unconventional gem.”
