Having already watched it three times, I remain convinced by my initial assessment that, whilst not exactly Lovecraftian, Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy is a stunning, psychedelic delve into the cosmic sublime: to this end, the film’s soundtrack has, alongside strange, mist-shrouded starscapes, occasional hallucinatory transitions into weirdly-alien realms, hints of a deeper mythology - as well as the Chemist’s comment that Red ‘exudes a cosmic darkness’ whilst black worms writhe about the protaganist’s feet - in no small part contributed to the evocation of a lush, Clark Ashton Smith-like cosmicism tinged with nihilism.
Needless to say, I spent scant time picking up a cd of the sountrack, whose cover sports Mandy’s name in classic ‘metal’ iconography. Nice.
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