Filmmaker Panos Cosmatos‘ “Mandy” is batshit crazy — and that is meant as the high compliment possible.
This 120-minute hallucination into dreamy hell is visually stunning, and unlike anything, you’ve ever seen before.
Yes, there are midnight movie tropes in the film; a chainsaw battle, an atmospheric soundtrack, and Nicolas Cage going completely bonkers by chugging a bottle of whiskey and snorting “cult coke,” but this revenge story, concocted from the deepest parts of Comsatos’ subconscious, is a unique brand of trippy surrealism.Continue reading ‘Mandy’: Director Panos Cosmatos Talks Nicolas Cage & His Batsh*t Crazy Psyche-Metal Revenge Movie at The Playlist.
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