Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Nicolas CageRed Miller
- Andrea RiseboroughMandy Bloom
- Linus RoacheJeremiah Sand
- Ned DennehyBrother Swan
- Olwen FouéréMother Marlene
- Richard BrakeThe Chemist
- Bill DukeCaruthers
- Line PilletSister Lucy
- Clément BaronnetBrother Klopek
- Alexis JulemontBrother Hanker
- 100
The Telegraph
Mandy exists in its own supremely unnerving horror dimension. - 91
The Playlist
Through Cage, the film’s straightforward revenge plot becomes a King Crimson album played at half speed and twice normal volume; a bizarre and bloody outing with a strong heart beneath the surface. - 83
The Film Stage
Most surprising of all, Mandy isn’t solely about the carnage-heavy path for revenge. Cosmatos knows that the impact will be much greater felt if there’s an emotional backbone. Thus, one can feel the soul-churning passion behind every popping eye and crushed skull. - 83
IndieWire
[A] hypnotic midnight movie, which veers from astonishing, expressionistic exchanges to gory mayhem without an iota of compromise. - 80
Variety
Mandy has so many enjoyably whacked-out elements, it comes as an actual surprise that Barry Manilow’s titular 1974 No. 1 hit is not among them. - 80
Village Voice
The film’s two sides — the soft, textured reverie of its first half, and the surreal, angular savagery of its second — exist in perpetual balance; one would die without the other. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Cosmatos' ability to put us in Red's head — overwhelmed at first with pain and fury, then saturated by the strange drugs he for some reason feels compelled to try — make this much more than the usual exercise in vicarious bloodshed. - 80
Screen Daily
A sensuous swath of striking imagery and otherworldly atmosphere, Mandy is a hypnotic, bloody pleasure.