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How far would you go to get revenge on the people who killed your loved one, and how cosmically space-age stoned would you get on your way to do it? These are the questions posed by Mandy, a film by Panos Cosmatos that bathes the screen in intense, red light as often as it does intense red blood. Mandy is a movie that will make you feel like you’re on the craziest trip of your life, even if you watch it stone-cold sober.
In the Pacific Northwest in 1983, outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with deadly fire.
Join Clay and Mandy…uh, I mean Amanda…as they drop mega acid with a non-Clive Barker approved Cenobite biker gang, Nic Cage and the Ocarina of Time, the Cheddar Goblin, Bill muthafuckin Duke, chainsaw fights, a homemade battleax smelted in your own basement, and the tainted blade of the pale knight, straight from the abyssal lair.
Nic Cage continues his 21st-century renaissance as the actor you go-to for the most whacked-out performance you could hope to put on film, and offers up an acting tour de force in one of the most unique films to come out in a long time. A labor of love and grief by its director, Mandy is destined to be a mainstay of the midnight movie repertoire and is already a favorite of genre hounds all across the world.
So call your mutant biker friends, drink a ton of pure acid, let your tiger loose, and trip into the hall of the crimson king with us…if you DARE!