Premiere Date, Cast & What To Know

When you had been a fan of Syfy’s creepypasta-inspired series Channel Zero, Nick Antosca’s new Netflix show Brand New Cherry Flavor is perhaps your subsequent horror obsession. Co-created with Channel Zero producer Lenore Zion, the eight-episode sequence follows Rosa Salazar as Lisa Nova, an aspiring horror movie director trying to break into the male-dominated movie business in Nineties Los Angeles. When Lisa is taken benefit of by producer Lou (Eric Lange), her dream venture turns right into a nightmare and he or she embarks on a surreal and supernatural journey of revenge.

The present is predicated on a 1996 novel of the same name by Todd Grimson. Within the ebook, after Lou cuts her out from directing her personal movie, Lisa asks black witch physician Boro (Catherine Keener within the present) to place a curse on Lou’s complete household. Besides the curse goes too far, and Lisa sinks even deeper into occult magic to cope with the fallout. Alongside the way in which, she clashes with hit males, legislation enforcement, and even zombies.

“I learn it and I didn’t know what to anticipate,” Antosca told iHorror.com. “I used to be simply type of greatly surprised. It caught with me. The Lisa Nova character caught with me. She’s this type of amoral, but relatable, artist who has received these things inside her that she’s making an attempt to get out into this type of nightmare world of Hollywood and LA.”

As a result of the present is billed as a restricted sequence, it doesn’t appear probably that Brand New Cherry Flavor will return for Season 2 — although the present has a fairly open ending that implies that Lisa and Boro might come again. “We deliberate it as a contained story,” Antosca told ScreenRant. “By no means say by no means if all the celebrities align, however we felt we wished to take this journey with this character.”

If the present does return, it must be a completely new story. Antosca instructed iHorror.com that they already “blended and matched” particulars from Grimson’s ebook to make all of it match inside one season. “We despatched [Grimson] the scripts as we labored. He was concerned within the inventive course of. Then we introduced a few of our personal stuff to it … There’s a variety of that stuff that got here from our personal nightmares.”

It’s potential that the sequence might proceed past what Grimson initially wrote, however critics appear to be cut up on whether or not or not there’s sufficient compelling story to inform. “The style-over-substance horror crowd appears certain to be disappointed by Brand New Cherry Flavor,” Judy Berman wrote for Time. “One more miniseries that ought to’ve been a 90-minute movie, it wrings means an excessive amount of content material out of too little materials.” Then again, Alex McLevy at AV Membership wrote that although “Antosca’s overstuffed his stories with too many subplots up to now,” Model New Cherry Taste is general a greater and “extra streamlined model of his bizarre sensibilities.” Solely time will inform if the surreal fever dream of a present finds sufficient of an viewers to benefit a renewal.