10 Horror Movies Where You Know Nearly Everyone Will Die

3. Mandy (2018)

Mandy Nicolas Cage
RLJE Films

Panos Cosmatos' trippy horror Mandy is one of the most important films in the Nicolas Cage renaissance, and played a big part in relaunching him as an indie horror icon after years spent taking any old straight-to-video actioner to pay off his debts. But while Mandy's trailer does a good job of teeing up the film's unique aesthetics, sound, and bloody action, it perhaps doesn't leave enough to the imagination.

Cage plays Red, a logger who lives in the middle of nowhere with his artist partner Mandy (Andrea Riseborough), and whose life is turned upside down when they are set upon by the religious cult Children of the New Dawn. Mandy is burned alive in front of Red, and Red goes on the warpath, with drugs, grief, weapons, and a one-track mind.

There's no two ways about it: the trailer spoils Mandy's death - the catalyst for the whole thing - and shows us Cage as a man with a vendetta against a cult and some demon biker boys who wronged him, hacking and splatting everyone he can get his hands on. 

But maybe that's the point; it doesn't matter that we know everyone is going to die when the journey there is so bats**t crazy and entertaining. 

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