Featuring guest Dan Nagan of Everything We Learned (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman)! Red and Mandy live in remote, mountainous California. Jeremiah Sand wants Mandy for his own. When he finally gets her and finds out he can’t earn her love, fealty, or fear, he burns her alive in front of her beloved. Red, newly given to the righteous, hellacious power of grief, embarks on a bloodbath rampage to exact vengeance on Sand, his followers, and the tripping, genetically modified sadomasochist biker gang that made Red’s pain possible. For being a relatively new film, MANDY has already left its mark on the action/horror space. Thematically evocative of a prog rock paean, visually visceral like a death metal album cover, and dripping with psychedelic horror vibes, its vision never outstrips its execution. It can be slow, strange, off-putting, and unconvincing, but it’s not forgettable. It rocks. It’s also, sometimes, very good. Find Dan and listen to his movie podcast, Everything We Learned, at the links below: - https://twitter.com/adapperdanman/ - https://letterboxd.com/adapperdanman/ - Everything We Learned on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everything-we-learned/id1184071273 - If you play Final Fantasy XIV, find Dan on the Diabolo server as “Hulk Smashworth” CRACKING OPEN THE DISNEY VAULT (Sept at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/cracking-open-the-disney-vault/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Children Of The New Dawn” by Jóhann Jóhannsson from the MANDY soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 189: MANDY (2018) with Dan Nagan 5:08 - The episode actually starts 6:21 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises) 12:12 - MANDY is DRIVE ANGRY (2012) by way of PIG (2021) 16:05 - Juggling love and distance between Red and Mandy 23:40 - Absurdity and the presence of Mandy after her death 35:37 - Jeremiah Sand 44:45 - Color, theme, and Red as a ‘hardcore wife guy’ 52:51 - MANDY and prog rock as a conduit into the unknown 1:00:42 - MANDY's effectiveness as horror 1:09:32 - The Junk Drawer 1:18:21 - Cody’s Noteys: Mandy, Shandy, or Candy (trivia) 1:30:14 - Dan's Detour – A Trylove First
