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Mandy

2018

Panos Cosmatos

Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Bill Duke ...

5.7

8,437

Thriller. Action. Horror Taking place in 1983, Red is a lumberjack who lives in a secluded cabin in the woods. His artist girlfriend Mandy spends her days reading fantasy paperbacks. Then one day, she catches the eye of a crazed cult leader, who conjures a group of motorcycle-riding demons to kidnap her. Red, armed with a chainsaw and other weapons, stops at nothing to get her back, leaving a bloody, brutal pile of bodies in his wake.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"On its own weird terms, it's extraordinarily successful (...) Cosmatos' ability to put us in Red's head (...) make this much more than the usual exercise in vicarious bloodshed"	POS
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"The first hour of the film is slow and, dare I say, trippy. Then the second half proudly stomps into 'I can’t believe I’m what I’m seeing' territory (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Cosmatos’ control over his array of stylistic devices is orchestral, even if the story content is gleefully trashy (...) 'Mandy' has so many enjoyably whacked-out elements"	POS
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"It’s like watching two very extreme filmmaking forces find each other [Cosmatos and Cage] and create something beautiful"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"It is simultaneously horrible and ludicrous (...) 'Mandy' exists in its own supremely unnerving horror dimension (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Another stunning dose of psychedelia and derangement (...) The movie’s stylistic overload often pushes it beyond the constraints of the various formulas its narrative brings to mind."	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"This film is fully scraping at the door. And by the end of it, there’s enough inspired Cage lunacy here that you want to let the damned thing in (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Weinberg Bloody Disgusting	"A setting so weirdly compelling and viscerally intense that you’ll start to feel like you’ve fallen into a Hieronymus Bosch painting (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"Even those bored by the film’s anti-efficient, Adult Swim surrealism might be dazzled by Cosmatos’ striking style"	POS

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