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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: [[spoiler: Technically, the title character qualifies, since it's her death that basically drives the back half of the film.]]
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* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Red's glorious axe-glaive from hell.
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* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Red's glorious axe-glaive from hell. The script calls it The Beast.
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** Used effectively again with the sect's Bible. We never find out what's in it, but the look on Red's face when he finds it indicates it's not something you'd learn in Sunday school.
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** Used effectively again with the sect's Bible. We never find out what's in it, but the [[TakeOurWordForIt look on Red's face when he finds it it]] indicates it's not something you'd learn in Sunday school.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Subverted. Jeremiah ''plans'' to do this, but Mandy's mocking him puts him out of the mood, so he just [[killItWithFire lights her on fire instead.]]]]
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* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: The Chemist keeps ''[[PantheraAwesone a tiger]]'' in a cage, and implies that he allows her to sample his wares ("When she's calm, I know it's good"). When Red visits him, the Chemist decides it's time to set her free -- and instead of killing the men, she merely leaves the Chemist's warehouse.
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* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: The Chemist keeps ''[[PantheraAwesone ''[[PantheraAwesome a tiger]]'' in a cage, and implies that he allows her to sample his wares ("When she's calm, I know it's good"). When Red visits him, the Chemist decides it's time to set her free -- and instead of killing the men, she merely leaves the Chemist's warehouse.
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** In one of Red's first scenes, he's shown refusing a beer from a co-worker, and later on when he needs alcohol, he has to retrieve it from deep inside a cabinet in his bathroom -- which, in addition to his fearlessness in trying drugs, suggests a RecoveringAddict. And when he shows up at his friend Caruthers's trailer home to retrieve his old crossbow ("the Reaper"), Caruthers expresses surprise that he's come back for it "after all these years".
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** In one of Red's first scenes, he's shown refusing a beer from a co-worker, and later on when he needs alcohol, he has to retrieve it from deep inside a cabinet in his bathroom -- which, in addition to his fearlessness in trying drugs, suggests a RecoveringAddict.RecoveredAddict. And when he shows up at his friend Caruthers's trailer home to retrieve his old crossbow ("the Reaper"), Caruthers expresses surprise that he's come back for it "after all these years".
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: There's a funny moment in the trailer when Red [[ChainsawGood revs up a chainsaw]] in preparation for murdering a guy with it, only for that guy to pull out his own chainsaw that's nearly ''[[SerialEscalation twice as long]].''
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* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Red's glorious axe-glaive from hell.
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* {{Mangst}}: Oozing from every frame (along with blood and cocaine.)
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** Is all the [[MindScrew weird shit]] that happens in the back half of the film really supernatural in nature, or is Red just insane with grief, shellshocked, and high off his ass? [[spoiler: Is he just hallucinating Mandy in the driver's seat with him, or is that her actual ghost?]]
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler: Averted. The title character dies in [[KillItWithFire gruesome fashion]], and although it seems like the movie will play this straight when Red spares Sister Lucy, it's averted shortly afterwards when he kills Mother Marlene.]]
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* RatedMForManly: Lumberjack Nicolas Cage in the 80s hunting down the evil cultists who [[spoiler: [[{{Mangst}} murdered his wife]]]] (which includes an army of {{Badass Biker}}s [[SpikesOfVillainy covered in spikes]], who [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane might be]] the LegionsOfHell) and murdering them all in an incredibly violent fashion with chainsaws, crossbows, and an insanely large axe of hardened steel.
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* RuleOfCool: To whit: Nicolas Cage getting in a sword fight with ''[[ChainsawGood chainsaws]]''.
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* ForcedToWatch: Red forcing to see his wife burning alive to ashes while tied and gaged up by the cult.
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** Possibly Red, by the film's end. [[spoiler:His voice sounds distorted, like the Black Skulls, and he's become strong enough to crush Jeremiah's skull with his bare hands.]]
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*** Given the PTSD from which Red appears to suffer, the fact that he's quite good at guerilla warfare, and the year in which the film is set, it's possible he's a Vietnam veteran.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: The Black Skulls all speak with deep, distorted, inhuman voices. Jeremiah's voice also distorts menacingly while he speaks to Mandy under the effect of a MushroomSamba.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: The Black Skulls all speak with deep, distorted, inhuman voices. Jeremiah's voice also distorts menacingly while he speaks to Mandy under the effect of a MushroomSamba. Red's voice itself distorts near the end of the film.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: The Black Skulls all speak with deep, distorted, inhuman voices. Jeremiah's voice also distorts menacingly while he speaks to Mandy under the effect of a MushroomSamba.
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''Mandy'' is a 2018 horror film from Panos Cosmatos, starring Creator/NicolasCage, Andrea Riseborough, and Creator/LinusRoache.
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''Mandy'' is a 2018 horror film from Panos Cosmatos, Cosmatos (director of ''Film/BeyondTheBlackRainbow''), starring Creator/NicolasCage, Andrea Riseborough, and Creator/LinusRoache.
** Worth noting: The sheer narcissistic self-absorption of the song Jeremiah plays for her (aside from it being [[StylisticSuck painfully stereotypical folk]]) is what enables Mandy, through her hallucinogenic haze, to turn down Jeremiah's advances. Instead, she laughs scornfully in his face until he begins [[BigShutUp screaming at her to shut up]].
-->'''Mandy:''' You made this song? And it's about ''you?''
-->'''Mandy:''' You made this song? And it's about ''you?''
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* ForcedToWatch: Red forcing to see his wife burning alive to ashes while tied and gaged up by the cult.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: To Cosmatos's previous film ''Film/BeyondTheBlackRainbow''. He explained in the interview that not only he considered it as a companion piece to the Black Rainbow, but also a "Yang" to the latter's "Ying". It's also more tight on plot and heavy on action compared to the latter.
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* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: The Chemist keeps ''[[PantheraAwesone a tiger]]'' in a cage, and implies that he allows her to sample his wares ("When she's calm, I know it's good"). When Red visits him, the Chemist decides it's time to set her free -- and instead of killing the men, she merely leaves the Chemist's warehouse.
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* BlingBlingBang: The only real gun in the entire movie is a gold-accented Luger owned by the Chemist, who chooses not to use it on Red.
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* BoundAndGagged: Mandy and Red, with ''barbed wire'' in Red's case.
* BoundAndGagged: Mandy and Red, with ''barbed wire'' in Red's case.
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* ShoutOut: Mandy informs Marlene that she and Red live near [[Franchise/FridayThe13 Crystal Lake.]]
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* ShoutOut: Mandy informs Marlene that she and Red live near [[Franchise/FridayThe13 [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Crystal Lake.]]
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* ShoutOut: Mandy informs Marlene that she and Red live near [[Franchise/FridayTheThirteenth Crystal Lake.]]
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* ShoutOut: Mandy informs Marlene that she and Red live near [[Franchise/FridayTheThirteenth [[Franchise/FridayThe13 Crystal Lake.]]
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* NoSell: [[Spoiler: Red nails one of the demonic bikers through the trachea with a crossbow bolt. The biker barely even considers this worth responding to.]]
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* NoSell: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Red nails one of the demonic bikers through the trachea with a crossbow bolt. The biker barely even considers this worth responding to.]]
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* TheEighties: The title cards inform us that the film takes place in "1983 A.D."
* BerserkButton: Jeremiah does NOT like being laughed at.
* BlackBestFriend: Caruthers, to Red. Whether or not they are actually best friends is debatable, as Caruthers implies they've not seen each other in a long time. But Red apparently trusts him enough to let him hold onto his weaponry, and Caruthers respects him enough to keep said weapon in top condition and to fashion custom ammunition for it.
* BlackBestFriend: Caruthers, to Red. Whether or not they are actually best friends is debatable, as Caruthers implies they've not seen each other in a long time. But Red apparently trusts him enough to let him hold onto his weaponry, and Caruthers respects him enough to keep said weapon in top condition and to fashion custom ammunition for it.
* FiveBadBand:
** TheBigBad: Jeremiah
** TheDragon / TheEvilGenius: Swan
** TheBrute: Klopek
** TheDarkChick: Marlene. Lucy.
** TheBigBad: Jeremiah
** TheDragon / TheEvilGenius: Swan
** TheBrute: Klopek
** TheDarkChick: Marlene. Lucy.
* HumanoidAbomination: The Black Skulls. They are supposedly just the victims of severe drug-induced psychosis. [[spoiler: But their [[VoiceOfTheLegion voices are demonic,]] they can be called and bargained with using a demonic instrument, and some of them seem to be made at least partially out of metal. One of them even brushes off a crossbow bolt through his throat.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The cult's biker henchman. They are called forth using "the Horn of Abraxas": a weird looking, (and weirder sounding) musical instrument. Their appearance is barely humanoid, and they behave like demonic entities in every way. But they ride perfectly ordinary motorcycles and one even rides a 4-wheel ATV. Later, Caruthers explains that [[spoiler:they used to be a drug-running outlaw biker gang until the dealer they worked for gave them something that really messed them up.]] Even then, though, the film goes out of its way to emphasize that these things are no longer fully human, if they ever were to begin with.
** Then there's the issue of the Chemist. [[spoiler:He is implied to be the drug maker who turned the bikers into what they are. Is he really communicating telepathically with Red, just a really good guesser, or just plain crazy?]]
** Then there's the issue of the Chemist. [[spoiler:He is implied to be the drug maker who turned the bikers into what they are. Is he really communicating telepathically with Red, just a really good guesser, or just plain crazy?]]
* MeaningfulName: Red spends the entire second half of the film with his face covered in gore.
* MediumBlending: Red's dreams of Mandy take the form of disturbing animated sequences.
* MindScrew
* NoNameGiven: Most of the cast, with their names only revealed in the end credits. Mandy - the title character - even only has her name mentioned once in the entire film.
* NoSell: [[Spoiler: Red nails one of the demonic bikers through the trachea with a crossbow bolt. The biker barely even considers this worth responding to.]]
* NothingIsScarier: Carefully and effectively utilized with the Black Skulls. Even when they are in full view they are always lit in such a way that we can never tell exactly what they are or what is wrong with them.
** Used effectively again with the sect's Bible. We never find out what's in it, but the look on Red's face when he finds it indicates it's not something you'd learn in Sunday school.
* OverlyLongGag: After sounding the Horn of Abraxas, there's a long, awkward bit with one of the cultists playing with the power window on the van.
* MediumBlending: Red's dreams of Mandy take the form of disturbing animated sequences.
* MindScrew
* NoNameGiven: Most of the cast, with their names only revealed in the end credits. Mandy - the title character - even only has her name mentioned once in the entire film.
* NoSell: [[Spoiler: Red nails one of the demonic bikers through the trachea with a crossbow bolt. The biker barely even considers this worth responding to.]]
* NothingIsScarier: Carefully and effectively utilized with the Black Skulls. Even when they are in full view they are always lit in such a way that we can never tell exactly what they are or what is wrong with them.
** Used effectively again with the sect's Bible. We never find out what's in it, but the look on Red's face when he finds it indicates it's not something you'd learn in Sunday school.
* OverlyLongGag: After sounding the Horn of Abraxas, there's a long, awkward bit with one of the cultists playing with the power window on the van.
* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: Mandy has an unsettling scar down the left side of her face. It is never explained, but it along with her haunted demeanor and the ugly story she tells about her father forcing children to kill baby birds hints that she has had a very hard life.
* ReligionOfEvil: Jeremiah's cult. Made scarier because it's never made clear exactly ''what'' they believe. They look like Jesus hippies and display crosses, but Jeremiah is disdainful of Jesus at one point. They also carry an artifact called "the Horn of Abraxas" and a sword with an eyeball in the hilt that Brother Swan claims came from the Abyss. Then there's their alliance with... ''whatever'' the Black Skulls are. Finally, there's the Bible that Red finds (see [[NothingIsScarier Nothing Is Scarier]] above.)
* ReligionOfEvil: Jeremiah's cult. Made scarier because it's never made clear exactly ''what'' they believe. They look like Jesus hippies and display crosses, but Jeremiah is disdainful of Jesus at one point. They also carry an artifact called "the Horn of Abraxas" and a sword with an eyeball in the hilt that Brother Swan claims came from the Abyss. Then there's their alliance with... ''whatever'' the Black Skulls are. Finally, there's the Bible that Red finds (see [[NothingIsScarier Nothing Is Scarier]] above.)
* ShoutOut: Mandy informs Marlene that she and Red live near [[Franchise/FridayTheThirteenth Crystal Lake.]]
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* TheUnfettered: Jeremiah, who believes that whatever god he worships has given him permission to do literally whatever he wants.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:Everything from the throbbing red glow in Jeremiah's lair to the three moons in the sky call Red's sanity into question by the end of the film.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Jeremiah turns out not to be so tough once Red has him cornered, and alternates between sputtering with outrage and pathetically begging for his life.]]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Black Skulls speak with it. [[spoiler:During the final confrontation with Jeremiah, Red does too. It is worth noting that this is after he has sampled the Black Skull's goop.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Sister Lucy witnesses Red killing Brother Swan. He notices her, but walks away and she is not seen again. The fate of the Chemist is also left unstated.]]
* TheUnfettered: Jeremiah, who believes that whatever god he worships has given him permission to do literally whatever he wants.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:Everything from the throbbing red glow in Jeremiah's lair to the three moons in the sky call Red's sanity into question by the end of the film.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Jeremiah turns out not to be so tough once Red has him cornered, and alternates between sputtering with outrage and pathetically begging for his life.]]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Black Skulls speak with it. [[spoiler:During the final confrontation with Jeremiah, Red does too. It is worth noting that this is after he has sampled the Black Skull's goop.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Sister Lucy witnesses Red killing Brother Swan. He notices her, but walks away and she is not seen again. The fate of the Chemist is also left unstated.]]
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* KillItWithFire: Happens multiple times in the film. [[spoiler:Mandy, regrettably, is the first example. Red pays it back, however: after killing Marlene and Jeremiah, he douses the corpses with gasoline and starts a fire that burns the Children's church down.]]
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* RussianRoulette: Jeremiah forces Lucy, as a show of devotion, to kneel in front of Red and play a round of Russian roulette.
-->'''Jeremiah:''' You think you're so "in love". ''I'll'' show you ''love''.
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* BadassBiker: The Black Skulls.
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* ArtShift: Three dream sequences in the film are done in 2D animation.
* BadassBiker: The BlackSkulls. Skulls.
* BattleTrophy: After Red [[spoiler:takes down the Black Skulls]], he takes a leather vest from one of them and wears it for the rest of the movie.
* BadassBiker: The Black
* BattleTrophy: After Red [[spoiler:takes down the Black Skulls]], he takes a leather vest from one of them and wears it for the rest of the movie.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Red and Mandy are both implied to have one.
** Mandy recounts to Red a nightmarish story about her father and the horrific thing he did to an annoying flock of starlings when she was a child. She also has a large scar on her left cheek, just under her eye, which is never explained.
** In one of Red's first scenes, he's shown refusing a beer from a co-worker, and later on when he needs alcohol, he has to retrieve it from deep inside a cabinet in his bathroom -- which, in addition to his fearlessness in trying drugs, suggests a RecoveringAddict. And when he shows up at his friend Caruthers's trailer home to retrieve his old crossbow ("the Reaper"), Caruthers expresses surprise that he's come back for it "after all these years".
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* FantasticDrug: Whatever that gray sludge is that the Black Skulls are doing, in addition to the piles of cocaine. [[spoiler:Red dips ''one finger'' into the jar, tastes it, and has a brief but intense acid vision that points him toward the Chemist.]]
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* FantasticDrug: Whatever that gray sludge is that the Black Skulls are doing, in addition to the piles of cocaine. [[spoiler:Red dips ''one finger'' into the jar, tastes it, and ''immediately'' has a brief but intense acid vision that points him toward the Chemist.Chemist, who in turn can point him toward Jeremiah's hideout.]]
* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: It's implied the Chemist habitually does this. We see him manufacturing blotter acid with no gloves on, and he puts one still-wet finger in his mouth when he speaks to Red.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Jeremiah, in spades.
-->'''Jeremiah:''' ''[to his reflection]'' They were wrong, and you were right... You are not separate from all that is, so all that is, is yours.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Jeremiah, in spades.
-->'''Jeremiah:''' ''[to his reflection]'' They were wrong, and you were right... You are not separate from all that is, so all that is, is yours.
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* StylisticSuck: "The Amulet of the Weeping Maze", a song from Jeremiah's days as a musician; what we hear of it is stereotypical Sixties-Seventies folk rock, with ethereal acoustic guitars and flutes and half-baked overly earnest New Age mysticism in the awful lyrics.
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* SmokingIsCool: In some cases. Red and Mandy, our most sympathetic characters, both smoke, and at one point Red takes it UpToEleven by lighting a cigarette on ''the flaming skull of a dead enemy''.
* StylisticSuck: "The Amulet of the Weeping Maze", a song from Jeremiah's days as a musician; what we hear of it is stereotypical Sixties-Seventies folkrock, rock with ethereal acoustic guitars and flutes flutes, and half-baked overly earnest New Age mysticism in the awful lyrics.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Mandy, arguably. She gets more focus and more solo scenes than Red in the early part of the film, right up to the Black Skulls' home invasion.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Red kills all of those involved in Mandy's murder (save for one innocent cult member), but as he drives away from the burning church, we see a sort of hellish landscape behind him.]]
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* ColorMotif: There's a hell of a lot of red in this movie, for obvious reasons, but there are some less all-encompassing motifs:
** Mandy is associated with black; her hair (which features prominently in Red's dream sequences) is black, a shirt she wears in pivotal scenes is black, and she wears an old black-and-white T-shirt of Red's to bed. (We later see Red wearing the same T-shirt.)
** The introductions of two "mystical" objects in the Children's possession -- the Horn of Abraxas and the Tainted Knife -- are accompanied by flashes of an ugly greenish-yellow.
* DecoyProtagonist: Mandy, arguably. She gets more focus and more solo scenes than Red in the early part of the film,right up to until the Black Skulls' home invasion.
* FantasticDrug: Whatever that gray sludge is that the Black Skulls are doing, in addition to the piles of cocaine. [[spoiler:Red dips ''one finger'' into the jar, tastes it, and has a brief but intense acid vision that points him toward the Chemist.]]
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Red kills all of those involved in Mandy's murder (save for one innocent cult member), but as he drives away from the burning church, we see a sort of hellish landscape behindhim.him, as though he's driving from some alternate dimension back toward his own.]]
** Mandy is associated with black; her hair (which features prominently in Red's dream sequences) is black, a shirt she wears in pivotal scenes is black, and she wears an old black-and-white T-shirt of Red's to bed. (We later see Red wearing the same T-shirt.)
** The introductions of two "mystical" objects in the Children's possession -- the Horn of Abraxas and the Tainted Knife -- are accompanied by flashes of an ugly greenish-yellow.
* DecoyProtagonist: Mandy, arguably. She gets more focus and more solo scenes than Red in the early part of the film,
* FantasticDrug: Whatever that gray sludge is that the Black Skulls are doing, in addition to the piles of cocaine. [[spoiler:Red dips ''one finger'' into the jar, tastes it, and has a brief but intense acid vision that points him toward the Chemist.]]
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Red kills all of those involved in Mandy's murder (save for one innocent cult member), but as he drives away from the burning church, we see a sort of hellish landscape behind
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* StylisticSuck: "The Amulet of the Weeping Maze", a song from Jeremiah's days as a musician; what we hear of it is stereotypical Sixties-Seventies folk rock, with ethereal acoustic guitars and flutes and half-baked overly earnest New Age mysticism in the awful lyrics.
-->''Every seed that gives us life\\
Every man must take a wife\\
Only one sun ever shines\\
Only one sun, yours and mine''
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Every man must take a wife\\
Only one sun ever shines\\
Only one sun, yours and mine''
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* AnAxeToGrind: Being a lumberjack, Red forges a huge axe-looking thing for himself and [[OffWithHisHead puts it to good use]].
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* DecoyProtagonist: Mandy, arguably. She gets more focus and more solo scenes than Red in the early part of the film, right up to the Black Skulls' home invasion.
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* BadassBiker: The Black Skulls.
* ChainsawGood: A chainsaw ''duel''.
* MushroomSamba: The Black Skulls are on some weird-ass LSD that basically turns them into demons. [[spoiler: After he kills them off, Red samples the same wares, which doesn't make the last act of the movie any ''less'' weird.]]
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* TheTeaser: The title card shows up after one whole hour, so technically ''half the movie'' is this.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: '''''I'M YOUR GOD NOW.'''''
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* LargeHam: Red, though it goes without saying being played by Nic Cage. Jeremiah is this as well.
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Red kills all of those involved in Mandy's murder (save for one innocent cult member), but as he drives away from the burning church, we see a sort of hellish landscape behind him.]]
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''Mandy'' is a 2018 horror film from Panos Cosmatos, starring Creator/NicolasCage, Andrea Riseborough, and Creator/LinusRoache.
Set in 1983, a logger named Red Miller (Cage) lives in the Shadow Mountains with his beloved wife Mandy Bloom (Riseborough). When she is spotted by a sadistic cult leader named Jeremiah Sand (Roache), he has a demonic gang kidnap Red and Mandy, bringing their tranquil existence to a horrifying end. Now, driven by fury and vengeance, Red goes after the cult and the entities that they have brought forth.
!!This film provides examples of:
* BigBad: Jeremiah Sand, leader of the Children of the New Dawn.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Mandy becomes this for Red.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The last third of the movie is all this for Red.
* SacrificialLamb: Jeremiah orders that one of the cult's overweight members be given up to the Black Skulls.
Set in 1983, a logger named Red Miller (Cage) lives in the Shadow Mountains with his beloved wife Mandy Bloom (Riseborough). When she is spotted by a sadistic cult leader named Jeremiah Sand (Roache), he has a demonic gang kidnap Red and Mandy, bringing their tranquil existence to a horrifying end. Now, driven by fury and vengeance, Red goes after the cult and the entities that they have brought forth.
!!This film provides examples of:
* BigBad: Jeremiah Sand, leader of the Children of the New Dawn.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Mandy becomes this for Red.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The last third of the movie is all this for Red.
* SacrificialLamb: Jeremiah orders that one of the cult's overweight members be given up to the Black Skulls.
