
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 crossbow and custom Axe, stops at nothing to get her back, leaving a bloody, brutal pile of bodies in his wake.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 crossbow and custom Axe, stops at nothing to get her back, leaving a bloody, brutal pile of bodies in his wake.
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| Irish TimesTara BradyThis is very much a 2018 film, with all our era's horrors and inadequacies and injustice exposed, writ large and remedied only by a retreat into fantasy. |
| Nightmarish ConjuringsMichelle SwopeWith hypnotic red and purple drenched cinematography, animated fantasy sequences, and the most intense Nicolas Cage performance in history, Mandy is incredible. |
| The TelegraphRobbie CollinMandy exists in its own supremely unnerving horror dimension. |
| Sight and SoundKatherine McLaughlinCosmatos has crafted a mind-melting genre orgy of cosmic proportions that's ridiculously fun. |
| Caimán Cuadernos de CineÀngel QuintanaThe most interesting part of [Mandy] is not what counts but how, from a few elements, it's able to create a hypnotic atmosphere. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Film InquiryGus EdgarIt's not nuanced, but it needn't be: watch Mandy with an enthusiastic audience and it's impossible not to be swept away in the carnage. |
| Caimán Cuadernos de CineJuanma RuizMandy is noise and fury, and there lies its magnificence and its problems. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Parade MagazineSamuel R. MurrianThis is an exceptionally thoughtful, striking horror picture with an all-time great Nicolas Cage performance at its core. Mandy is the reason midnight movies are a thing. |
| The Movie SleuthMichelle KisnerMandy is a triumph of both genre film-making and art, an unfiltered glimpse into the mind of an artist. |
| El Pais (Spain)Jordi CostaThe mythical journey progresses from dreamlike somnambulism to abstraction avoiding articulating itself as a conventional story. [Full Review in Spanish] |