MANDY
Cert 18 Running time 121 minutes ★★★★
Nicolas Cage unleashes his full satanic fury in this gleefully violent 1980s throwback revenge horror.
He plays a lumberjack sharing a simple rural life with the sweet-natured Mandy, played at her otherworldly best by my favourite Geordie actress, Andrea Riseborough.
She’s kidnapped by a Transit van-driving sex cult called The Children of the New Born, who are aided by a psychopathic and drugged-up biker gang. So a demented Cage pursues them across a blood-red landscape with a crossbow and a homemade axe.
Even with his outrageous screen presence at full tilt, Cage still seems the most sane presence in the knowingly over-the-top slaughter which follows. With inventive deaths, animated interludes, full-frontal nudity and a tiger called Lizzie, it’s a delirious assault on the senses as we accompany Cage on his descent into damnation. Add in more buckets of blood than the last Carrie remake and this is the new Nic Cage film you’ve been praying for.