There’s a scene in Panos Cosmatos’ new mind-fuck revenge
horror film, Mandy, where a character dips his gloveless
hands into a cistern of pure liquid LSD in the most casual manner imaginable.
The more I think about it, the more that single moment perfectly represents
this bug-nuts crazy, drug-addled, apocalyptic-doomsday-cult-fueled,
chainsaw-fighting, demon-biker-having madness and mania. Sure, dip your bare
hands into this powerful hallucinogen and see what the hell happens. And it’s
glorious.
This year, the main reason I was bummed to miss Sundance was
I missed the bonkers-sounding, Nic Cage-starring madness that is
Mandy. It’s one of those movies that, after it premiered, it
kept sounding crazier and crazier, and more and more perfect every time. Now
there’s good news, as it’s been picked up for distribution and we’ll be able to
mainline it into our eyeballs this summer.
I don’t know writer/director Adam MacDonald
(Backcountry) personally, but I can say with relative certainty
that he made his new movie, Pyewacket, just for me. Okay,
maybe not, but we’re talking about an occult, heavy metal, satanic panic horror
movie, so he may as well have titled it Movie for Brent.
Check out this trailer if you’re picking up what I’m putting down.
