Siddhant Adlakha Two men’s stroll through a Michigan forest as they bicker inconsequentially should not be this intriguing.
However, writer-director (and actor) Joel Potrykus strikes precisely at the heart of their human drama in “Vulcanizadora,” an off-kilter slow burn about a macabre pact that eventually goes awry.
Low-quality video footage of arson and destruction lures us into the movie’s pristine, picturesque, 16mm shots of a rural trail.
This is the film’s setting and its aesthetic default for much of Potrykus’s story, in which he plays a troubled, nervous and often grating character named Derek Skiba.
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