We loved that kind of brutal, grimy, almost punk aesthetic of those films, particularly the first Mad Max. It's just so raw and visceral, and that's something we always strived for in our action.
I feel a strong kinship with films like the original 'Mad Max,' which felt like a grindhouse movie but also had a mythological weight to it. That kind of raw, kinetic energy was definitely something I wanted to achieve with 'Mandy.'
— Panos Cosmatos · Birth.Movies.Death. - Panos Cosmatos and Nicolas Cage Go Deep on MANDY
I definitely feel a strong kinship with those kind of... those films like the original 'Mad Max,' which felt like a grindhouse movie but also had a mythological weight to it. That kind of raw, kinetic energy, the way it just throws you into this world, was definitely something I wanted to achieve with 'Mandy.'
— Panos Cosmatos · Birth.Movies.Death. - Panos Cosmatos and Nicolas Cage Go Deep on MANDY
Films That Influenced Mad Max
