The Alchemist Cookbook
Why this pick
A one-man, DIY descent into obsessive ritual and squalid survival, matching Relaxer’s lo-fi texture, claustrophobic focus, absurdist humour, and steadily more hallucinatory pressure.
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Why this pick
A one-man, DIY descent into obsessive ritual and squalid survival, matching Relaxer’s lo-fi texture, claustrophobic focus, absurdist humour, and steadily more hallucinatory pressure.
Why this pick
Its aggressively grotesque practical effects, fractured underground-comedy logic, and apocalyptic sensory overload make it a strong fit for Relaxer’s committed bad-taste surrealism.
Why this pick
This shares Relaxer’s filthy retro aesthetic, deliberately awkward performances, repetitive comic rhythms, and willingness to push a ludicrous premise into a strangely hypnotic nightmare.
Why this pick
A fake-found-footage endurance prank with abrasive sound, degraded imagery, and gleefully antisocial humour; it channels a similarly confrontational DIY spirit rather than conventional narrative comfort.
Why this pick
Its extreme confinement, deranged comic cruelty, and outsider protagonist create an unnerving absurdist ordeal that rhymes with Relaxer’s escalating challenge-based isolation.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1999, Cam (David Dastmalchian) gives his younger brother Abbie (Joshua Burge) an ultimate challenge. Abbie is not allowed to leave the couch until he goes beyond the level 256 of ''Pac-Man''.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Cam