The Crocodile

Vulcanizadora

4 Showings of Vulcanizadora with Grand Illusion Cinema 


"[Joel Potrykus is] a maestro of despair and discomfort." - Jeanette Catsoulis (The New York Times)

“One of the most immediately distinctive American independent filmmakers to emerge in the
last decade” - Nadine Smith (Hyperallergic)

The Grand Illusion proudly presents the utterly unique and intense new movie from writer/director Joel Potrykus and actor Joshua Burge, creators of the darkly bizarre, bracingly original indie flicks RELAXER and BUZZARD.

In VULCANIZADORA, two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact made years earlier. It is only after things go shockingly awry that the surreal and unsettling consequences of their actions are revealed. [Vulcanizadora] will melt your face off before burying you under its bleak vision... There is no film you'll ever see like it as it patiently builds to a terrifying explosion and then keeps going from where most would stop, leaving us to pick up the pieces that are forever shattered.