The Review: Mandy

Mandy 9/10

This will be full of spoilers. Today I got to watch the movie Mandy with B&H. Holy shit this movie is insane. I was sitting here trying to figure out how to even write a review for it because this movie has such a simple plot but is full of so many insane visuals it feels silly to sit here and try to write it out. This guy Red Miller played by Nic Cage and his girlfriend Mandy Bloom played by Andrea Riseborough live out in the middle of nowhere in the early 80's. They are living their odd but simple life when one day while walking this creepy ass group of people pass her in their van and their leader Jeremiah Sand spots her and becomes immediately obsessed. He sends the spooky old lady from his group called the Children of the New Dawn to check Mandy out before later that night kidnapping her.

This movie starts off at a slow pace but visually there is so much cool shit to look at that it is not bad. Jeremiah sends his folks to summon these crazy ass Mad Max type sons of bitches from the darkness by blowing a horn. They arrive, drink a glass of LSD, and leave. Let me talk about these Children of the New Dawn for a second. There are two creepy tooth filled guys, a chubby blond that gets sold to the bikers, a young girl, the spooky old lady, a weird older dude, and Jeremiah. The bikers get into Red and Mandy's home, tie Red up, and kidnap Mandy. They drip LSD into her eye and let some bug jab her neck. She is high as fuck. Jeremiah talks his talk, plays his music, and tries to seduce her by whipping out his dick. She starts laughing which pisses him the fuck off. He stabs Red in the side and has Mandy set on fire in front of him. Red ends up getting free and losing every once of his shit in the bathroom of their home.

Red heads to his friends place played by Bill Duke who tells him about the biker gang and gives him his crossbow back. Red also forges an ax that looks insane as shit. He heads off to get his revenge an it is bloody as hell. He finds the biker gang and attacks one but gets captured. After fighting a few of them off he heads to their kitchen where he finds their LSD. He puts just a drop on his tongue and gets sent into outer space. Just. A. Drop. That biker gang were drinking the shit like water. He also snorts some coke because why not. He ends up finding Jeremiah's crew and killing them all in the most gruesome of ways before confronting Jeremiah himself.

I'll tell you, a man will lose all kinds of bravado when a blood soaked man throws a head of someone you knew at you. I seriously enjoyed the hell out of this movie. Yeah, it is a basic revenge story but a lot of my favorite films are basic as hell. John Wick is about a dude slaughtering dozens because his dog was killed. I ain't mad about it. The music for this was cool. The way it looked was awesome. The acting was weird as hell. This movie made me feel like I went on a strange ass vacation.

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