Just to get this out of the way: I love Mandy, it’s going to land very high on my end-of-year best-of list. It wraps up in a satisfying manner and I don’t think it needs or even should receive a sequel. That said, if it does get a follow up, which it won’t, it should definitely follow director Panos Cosmatos’ sequel idea, because hot damn, it’s a doozy.
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.
If Panos Cosmatos’ Nic-Cage-starring cult thriller Mandy wasn’t already at the top of your 2018 must-see list, it should be now. And if it’s not after watching this trailer, I can’t even imagine why you’re here reading this website, because this is 100% what we’re all about. Damn, just damn.
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.
