Mandy

Nicolas Cage, a chainsaw duel, a cult, and Jóhann Jóhannsson's last score. Not for everyone and not attempting to be.

A logger and his partner live quietly in the Shadow Mountains in 1983. A travelling cult leader sees her, decides he wants her, and sends for demonic bikers to take her.

Panos Cosmatos shoots the first hour as a slow, hypnotic, red-and-black dream with almost no dialogue, and the second as a revenge film in which Cage forges an axe and drinks a bottle of vodka in a bathroom in a scene that has become its own genre of clip.

Jóhannsson's score is doom-metal guitar arranged as orchestral drone. He died before it was released.

Linus Roache plays the cult leader as a failed folk singer who is furious that nobody liked his album, which is the funniest and most accurate detail in it.