Details

Release year: 2018

Storyline

The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.

Top credits

Directors

Panos Cosmatos

Writers

Cast

Nicolas Cage — Red Miller
Andrea Riseborough — Mandy Bloom
Linus Roache — Jeremiah Sand
Ned Dennehy — Brother Swan

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Did you know

• In a 2018 UK Guardian interview, Nicolas Cage described his performance's inspiration: only just before shooting started, his 14 year marriage to Alice Kim Cage came to 'a sudden end', which was "A shocker for me... didn't see it coming, and those feelings had to go somewhere, so they went into my performance."

• Actor Richard Brake (who plays The Chemist) revealed on Twitter in Dec 2018 that in an early draft of the script the caged Bengal Tiger "Lizzie" was a lizard. Brake recounted that when he arrived on set director Panos Cosmatos said "Oh, by the way: Lizzie's a tiger now."

• Towards the end of the film, Red tells the cult leader that the psychotic drowns where the mystic swims. This is a variation of a quote by mythologist Joseph Campbell: "The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight." (Joseph Campbell, "Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research"). It means that there's a fine line between psychosis and spirituality.