Brand New Cherry Flavor: Netflix digs into the show’s genre homages

I intend to watch the Netflix horror thriller limited series Brand New Cherry Flavor as soon as possible, I just haven’t had a chance since the eight-episode series was released on the streaming service on August 13th. For those of you who have already watched Brand New Cherry Flavor or don’t mind some SPOILERS, Netflix has now released a video – you can see it in the embed below – that digs into the show’s influences and the homages it contains to other genre projects. If you want to know how Brand New Cherry Flavor nods to Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, Drag Me to Hell, Night of the Living Dead, and Friday the 13th, scroll down and check out this video!

Based on a novel by Todd Grimson (you can pick up a copy of that HERE), Brand New Cherry Flavor is written by Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion. The show tells the story of 

Lisa Nova (Salazar), an aspiring film director in the sun-drenched but seamy world of 1990 Los Angeles who embarks on a mind-altering journey — from the streets of Beverly Hills to the forests of Brazil — of supernatural revenge.

Here’s the description of Grimson’s novel:

In the world of Hollywood’s panderers, philanderers, has-beens, and sycophants, aspiring screenwriter and director Lisa Nova considers herself a rising star who can transcend the lies, cheating, and hypocrisy for the sake of her art. When she is coldly betrayed by one leering producer too many, she turns to Boro, the enigmatic leader of a local biker gang, to exact vengeance—and she gets more than she bargained for. It begins with the strange tattoos that appear overnight on her skin like stigmata, followed by the hallucinations of ancient cults of the undead. Lisa soon finds herself contending with white jaguars and cannibalistic demons rising from the grave, and the lines between dreams and reality quickly dissolve in this surreal and exhilarating blend of satire and the macabre.

Salazar is joined in the cast by Catherine Keener, Eric Lange, Jeff Ward, Manny Jacinto, Hannah Levien, Leland Orser, and Patrick Fischler.