Mandy

I really enjoyed this film. Honestly, I'm really close to saying that I loved it. This movie is wonderfully inventive, beautifully shot, and totally unlike anything else I've ever seen before. Plus, you get to see Nick Cage fight with chainsaws. What's not to like?

A 2018 revenge nightmare starring Nicholas Cage & from co-writer/director Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow). A happy couple, Cage & wife Andrea Riseborough, live in a secluded cabin in the woods but one day while walking home, Riseborough catches the eye of a psychotic mad man, Linus Roache, w/a messianic complex (aren't they all?) who directs his minions one night to scoop her & Cage up. After she's drugged & dragged in front of Roache, Riseborough makes the cardinal, fatal sin of laughing in front of his presence causing him to kill her off in front of Cage who's left bound to watch. Breaking free of his bonds the next morning & after an interlude of unhinged hysterics & vodka, Cage embarks on a mission of revenge (along w/a trusted crossbow he gets from his friend, Bill Duke) taking down any & everyone behind his wife's demise. Set against a kaleidoscope of purples & blacks in imagery reminiscent of a hellscape painted on the side of a 70's custom van, Cosmatos indulges in the ultimate anti-date night movie which doesn't give us an easy closure to the events but somehow wallows in the id of the characters to send its message home.

This movie is an absolute trip and people complain about style over substance but that's the whole point of the movie. To give us an insane heavy metal LSD horror trip for 2 hours. It suceeds in every way. Nic Cage is goofy in this movie and it is perfect. Some of his expressions are golden.

I mean if you liked the new suspiria or the neon demon or climax it's kinda in this genre.

Just a brief review here summed up in two words...Absolutely Mental.

If you think killing John Wick's dog is dangerous wait until you see what happens when you rip Nic Cage's favorite shirt.