Mandy

2018 Directed by Panos Cosmatos

The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

Nicolas Cage Andrea Riseborough Linus Roache Ned Dennehy Olwen Fouéré Richard Brake Bill Duke Line Pillet Clément Baronnet Alexis Julemont Ivailo Dimitrov Hayley Saywell Stephan Fraser Kalin Kerin Tamás Hagyuó Paul Painter Zeva DuVall

Alternative Titles

맨디, Мэнди, Μάντυ (2018)

horror

122 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by Sean Baker 26

Saw it last night at a sold-out show at the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre. Had a blast. Wholly original, hypnotic, brutal, beautiful, trippy, etc, etc, etc... everything you now expect from Panos Cosmatos.
Performances are fantastic. Andrea Riseborough is quickly becoming one of my faves.
See this on the big screen.
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 35

If this was 80 minutes long it'd be the movie bro catnip you crave: visually completely dazzling, exceptionally violent and unpleasant, frequently hilarious (intentionally or not, depending on your level of ironic detachment), and loaded with mega-Cage. But that extra 40 gives you plenty of time to think about how wickedly, unnecessarily slow, completely corny and affected, and vaguely misogynistic it all is. I'd be lying if I didn't say this was a good time, the Yes album cover demonic hypno-drone is pretty much unimpeachable, but whatever Cosmatos thinks he's up to he could sure stand to lighten the fuck up a little.
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 15

if this film were any more metal* they'd have to mine it out of the Earth before each screening.**
*yes it's me, the ultimate authority on what is and isn't metal / the kid who bought Metallica's "Reload" in 7th grade, listened to the first song a few times, and moved on to the dark recesses of emo without ever looking back.
**but seriously MANDY is super metal. delighted it exists. Andrea Riseborough and Nicolas Cage both give performances as good as any i've seen this year.
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★½ 16

Had it on for 5 min before my roommates told me to turn it off
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 8

95
Lost my spine in the theater.
Review by Jacob Knight ★★★★½ 6

Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s GHOST RIDER, scored with dronecore stoner metal. Paint this whole movie on the side of a fucking conversion van.
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★½

ME LAST NIGHT AFTER MANDY: i don't know what the fuck that was. it was slow and bewildering and a bit more boring than i expected. but it was also really beautiful? whatever. i'm tired
ME JUST NOW AFTER READING THE SYNOPSIS AND WATCHING THE TRAILER AGAIN: oh sick so i can just rent this thing and watch it again on google play right now?
as much as i think this is a beautiful thing to watch in a theater, it's also the kind of dark, deliberate watch that i would've probably enjoyed more if i watched it at home. very surprised at how straight-forward this movie was plot-wise, given how wild it is every single other aspect
i get…
Review by nathaxnne ★★ 128

Mandy was someone who had been through some shit, some horrible shit and she came out scarred but alive, able to read and draw and dream and sleep and get high and listen to metal. Life was difficult and heavy but finally possible. She had someone who she loved and could live with. Her trauma was subsiding and becoming integrated into her daily life. Her nightmares at night weren't quite as bad anymore. Only once or twice a month now would she wake up, sheets clenched in her fist, having to get up and go to the bathroom and smoke a bowl staring out into the rainy night, having to collect herself before going back to bed and getting through…
Review by iana ★★★★ 6

jesus fucking christ
Review by karen h. ★★★★★ 4

fuck everyone who doesn’t think nicolas cage is one of the most tender actors alive
Review by Hollie Horror ★★½ 19

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Can I be real for a moment? I kept almost falling asleep and when my eyes would snap back open, I'd still be watching the same exact slow-motion scene as when I first nodded off. Not into the gimpy cenobite cult gods or Mandy burning alive so her man can have his vengeance, she was the only interesting character and before I knew it, she was gone [obviously excluding Cheddar Goblin]. Loved the final shot of the movie, but I just wasn't feeling it overall. Y'all can tell me "you should have seen it in a theater," but then I'd just ask you, "why, so I can still not like it, but only louder?"
Review by maria ★★★★ 5

what

Recent reviews

Review by junglejimpalmer ★★

I bet this movie kills at sleepovers.
Review by andrewmcclure1 ★★★★

It’s all mine.
Review by Blake Selph ★★★

Stylish. And it had to be, because this film is 90% esthetics.
Review by Germán V. Altamirano ★½

La película escrita y dirigida por Panos Cosmatos, es una historia simple de venganza. Toma prestada varias cosas de otras películas del género. Tenemos desde reminiscencias de The Hills Have Eyes hasta cosas como la saga The Texas Chain Saw Masacre, pasando por supuesto por escenas sacadas de Evil Dead 2. También vi referencias visuales al terror cósmico de H.P. Lovecraft, aunque tenían la idea, la dejaron ir y no aprovechan la influencia del escritor en los guionistas.
El filme va de una pareja formada por los personajes de Nicolas Cage y Andrea Riseboroug, quien interpreta a la mencionada Mandy del titulo. En la primera mitad de la película conocemos a los personajes del universo y cómo se manejan en…
Review by tigerrose ★★★

This movie is fucked up. I still don’t like Nicolas Cage.
Review by demirdemirbag ★★★★½

4. İzleyişim ve film hâlâ muhteşem.
Review by Chris Jenkins ★★★★★

The color grading/lighting/framing/directing and EDITING make this worthy of 5 stars. I really can’t wait to see what Panos Cosmatos does next.
Review by Sergio ★★★★½

Andrea Riseborough. Eso es todo.
Review by KK ★★★★

Drugs are bad kids.
Review by elôㅤ ★★

two stars for nicolas cage performance
Review by Biscutbuu666 ★★★★½

There is a supremely magical moment in this film that never gets old for me: Nic walks into a 70s sitcom bathroom (complete with shag carpeting), in briefs and a tiger baseball tee, he's covered in blood and just starts pounding straight vodka he got from under the sink and screaming. That right there is pure cinema.
Review by Mike Ricca ★★★½

What even is there to say about Mandy, it's the most traumatic movie I've seen in years and I will probably have people come over to watch it as often as possible for the rest of my life. Do not watch if you live in the woods... Or for that matter think about while you are in the woods.