Mandy Trailer
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Looks good. Was trying to think the last movie I saw of his and I think it was Bad Lieutenant. Honestly surprised by how many movies he does, especially the last few years.
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This looks amazing and a step up in intensity from Panos Cosmatos' previous work.
What I'm seriously wondering about is if Mandy is actually an unofficial sequel to his previous movie BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW. Maybe Mandy was Dr. Arboria's wife or someone else from the Arboria institute? This would be amazing because people thought the end of BTBR was very underwhelming so it would be great to see the story expanded on. It also fits with the timeline of BTBR.
Panos Cosmatos with a higher budget continuing with themes like this in Mandy will probably result in a movie tripping balls severely.
It has me really curious about similar visual themes in the artwork such as the Pyramid.
This looks amazing and a step up in intensity from Panos Cosmatos' previous work.
What I'm seriously wondering about is if Mandy is actually an unofficial sequel to his previous movie BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW. Maybe Mandy was Dr. Arboria's wife or someone else from the Arboria institute? This would be amazing because people thought the end of BTBR was very underwhelming so it would be great to see the story expanded on. It also fits with the timeline of BTBR.
Panos Cosmatos with a higher budget continuing with themes like this in Mandy will probably result in a movie tripping balls severely.
It has me really curious about similar visual themes in the artwork such as the Pyramid.
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Sad this is the final score from this amazing composer. 
Johann passed away unexpectedly early this year.
https://pitchfork.com/news/johann-johannssons-mandy-soundtrack-his-final-work-to-be-released/
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Mandy Soundtrack, His Final Work, to Be Released
Listen to “Children of the New Dawn” from the score
Before his death in February, Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson scored the forthcoming horror film Mandy, directed by Panos Cosmatos and starring Nicholas Cage. Now, Lakeshore and Invada have announced that they’ll release the soundtrack on September 14.
The Mandy score was co-produced by Jóhann and Randall Dunn. It features Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley on guitar. The album was later assembled with the help of co-producers Pepijn Caudron and Yair Glotman. The film, which arrives in theaters on September 14, is about a man who hunts the religious sect responsible for killing his wife.
In a press release, Cosmatos writes:
Johann passed away unexpectedly early this year.https://pitchfork.com/news/johann-johannssons-mandy-soundtrack-his-final-work-to-be-released/
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Mandy Soundtrack, His Final Work, to Be Released
Listen to “Children of the New Dawn” from the score
Before his death in February, Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson scored the forthcoming horror film Mandy, directed by Panos Cosmatos and starring Nicholas Cage. Now, Lakeshore and Invada have announced that they’ll release the soundtrack on September 14.
The Mandy score was co-produced by Jóhann and Randall Dunn. It features Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley on guitar. The album was later assembled with the help of co-producers Pepijn Caudron and Yair Glotman. The film, which arrives in theaters on September 14, is about a man who hunts the religious sect responsible for killing his wife.
In a press release, Cosmatos writes:
Jóhann went above and beyond, and I suspect to the limits of his sanity, to make the music for this movie. His words and his actions made him more than a great collaborator, they made him like a brother to me. I’m sad our time together was so brief but I’m very proud of what he accomplished on Mandy and I believe he was too.
Jóhann Jóhannsson died on February 9 at the age of 48. The cause of his death is still unknown. Following his passing, musicians like Flying Lotus, Tim Hecker, and many others paid tribute.
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This looks like an Indy movie with a limited cinema release situation. I don't think any theater near me is picking it up.
However, it looks like the video release to DVD/BluRay will be end of October 2018.
This looks like an Indy movie with a limited cinema release situation. I don't think any theater near me is picking it up.
However, it looks like the video release to DVD/BluRay will be end of October 2018.
Closest to me is about a 30 min drive. I may still do it this weekend, we'll see.
It's on VOD services today ($6.99 rental on iTunes / Amazon Prime)! I'll probably just rent it and watch at home. I may do that tonight!
Weird. Before I looked at the listing and it just showed the release date for the BluRay/DVD. I see it's updated now to rent.
If I don't work this weekend, I'm tempted to get a good bourbon and rewatch Beyond the Black Rainbow followed by Mandy.
Weird. Before I looked at the listing and it just showed the release date for the BluRay/DVD. I see it's updated now to rent.
If I don't work this weekend, I'm tempted to get a good bourbon and rewatch Beyond the Black Rainbow followed by Mandy.
I added Beyond the Black Rainbow to my watchlist on Shudder from your recommendation, I may end up seeing it this weekend as well!
BTBR is very slow paced, but based on the movies you post, you might appreciate it if you like Cult Film / Midnight Movies. There is some good synth music, set design, and one part where a main character is tripping balls severely. The ending is very underwhelming to many people, but the I still found the film overall very enjoyable.
Both BTBR and Mandy take place in the 80s and both have that common Triangle/Pyramid symbol. It may be worth seeing if either Mandy is a sequel or if both are in a Cosmatos Cinematic Universe of some kind.
Beyond the Black Rainbow is still only 52% on Rotton Tomatoes rated by confused reviewers.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beyond_the_black_rainbow_2012
Finally saw it.
Sloooowwwww burn to insanity.
Beyond the Black Rainbow was more refined while this felt like drifting into raw primal madness. In both films though, I appreciate his use of color/lighting and editing transitions. This definitely gets a boost from Johannsson's score as well.
Mandy in general was a very unusual slow paced art film with a slow setup, but that is very typical of this kind of film much like many David Lynch films. Some of this made me think of Lost Highway and Blue Velvet with the hard contrast lighting or stobe flickering as well as the purely crazy bad guys.
I was surprised to see a random touch of The Ghoulies in this and had hoped to see something literally supernatural, but the film didn't go that direction.
There were also weird allusions to Heavy Metal with the animation.
The Black Skull bikers curiously reminded me of The Plague from the Grindhouse movie Hobo With A Shotgun (with a touch of Hellraiser)
I was hoping for a more definitive closure to Red Miller's character.
I think Panos Cosmatos has great potential and deserves a bigger budget while he could benefit from different approaches to his script. I think he can keep doing his slow burn paced films, but all his payoff moments are purely emotional. David Lynch movies have plot based payoffs even if you don't really comprehend them or they work on more of a symbolic level.
This makes me think of INLAND EMPIRE that is fully mind fvckery and hard to even explain, yet connects a lot of dots that have weird implied meaning or symbolism. To be fair, Inland Empire is over 3 hours so it has room to do all this.
Or something like the crazy ass dialogue in Mulholland Drive.
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Personally I think BTBR is overrated. Starts out extremely promising, then slowly burns to an underwhelming climax.
Apparently "Cheddar Goblin" was filmed by the guy / people who did "Too Many Cooks". 
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