1991 Directed by Sam Pillsbury
Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair.
Nicolas Cage Erika Anderson Judge Reinhold Joe Pantoliano Viveca Lindfors Steve Buscemi Marisa Tomei Aaron Neville Ian Abercrombie Jo-El Sonnier Newell Alexander Blaise Delacroix Eliott Keener John Cutler Thomas Iain Don Brady Becky Allen Buckley Norris Karen Ayme Tiffany McGuinnes Danny Landos Kevin Owen McDonald Louis Barrosso Zach Galligan Richard Greenberg
Judge Reinhold Gregory G. Woertz Staffan Ahrenberg Gary M. Bettman Mari Kornhauser Nicole Seguin William Blaylock Eyal Rimmon Tom Eliasson Coren Eliasson
Zandalee - Uma Mulher para Dois, Zandalee (En el límite del deseo), Zandalee - himottu, Deseo salvaje, O Último Tango em Nova Orleães
I had no intention of reviewing this movie since it has no intrinsic value whatsoever, but after sitting through some real drab mediocre thrillers I could not let this weirdo erotic-not-thriller-tragedy escape me!
Down in New Orleans, a place where vacant and starving stories can fester in the escape for aesthetics and heat naturally stirs between two characters who have no chemistry at all, we can watch Nic Cage channel the sexiness I know he possesses. While it seems self-evident, there is an untamed eroticism to Cage's persona that makes casting him as the Don Juan make way more sense than a lot of other erotic leads I've watched. When he grabs Zandalee by the thigh and agressively moves upwards…
All credit for this viewing goes to Zandalee's #1 fan Raff.
It's a perfection of 90s trash cinema. At the very beginning of the erotic thrillers that would permeate the 90s but shot in New Orleans with Zandalee, married to a poet but loved by an artist. When I think of the dialog in this movie, it's so ridiculous that it's almost poetry. And 90s Nic Cage 😍😍😍, who isn't seduced by Cage in this movie?!!
Easily one of the best pieces of wonderful trash cinema around. I need to buy that Uncut version immediately!
A Nic Cage a Month Keeps You Drunk 3.0
Zandalee is a woman who is desperately unhappy in her sexless marriage. She begins a torrid affair with her husband's lifelong friend, the tortured artist, Johnny Collins. Tensions between the trio culminate with a finale set on a speedboat racing through the bayou. Uh-huh.
It's a crazy-Cage movie alright, just not in a way that I particularly care for. In the role of Johnny he is meant to evoke some sort of raw sexuality, but never seems like anything but an unhinged predator. I don't care how badly you need to get fucked, this is not the man you wanna choose. This and several other factors make Zandalee a very unsympathetic…
A Nic Cage Movie a Month Keeps you Drunk!
Film 1/12
Song review to Valerie by Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse
Well sometimes Judge wants to fuck
But his dick's limper, than it 'aught 'er
Cage rock's in as a hairy thing, and says to Judge
Hey man, shall I paint your picture?
But since Cage has been at home
Well Zandalee has been a mess
She's being fucked really hard
And she is very rarely dressed
Cage says, roll on over
I perform anal expertly
Why don't you roll on over Zandalee?
Zandalee
Zandalee
Zandalee
Craig did we have to watch this film?
The good points add up to nil, did they even have a scriptwriter?
The dialogue was…
For anyone wondering where this falls in the Cage Canon, it's the clip in the Cage Losing His Shit vid where he covers himself in black paint.
A commitment to Tennessee Williams-esque absurdity, aggressive sex, and intermittent Cajun accents barely tether Zandalee to reality. A mustachio'd Judge Reinhold has given up a writing career, and with it any chance of giving good sex to his wife -- because writers make the best lovers. Good thing former childhood pal and current artist Nic Cage comes in to fill the void. While it's impossible to get past Reinhold's strained attempts at trying to act hard, Cage imposes a palpable sexual danger into the central love triangle. Only he could treat 9 1/2…
Ahh there we go, this was a shitty Nic Cage movie. Filled to the brim with horribly shot sex scenes, Zandalee kind of has to be seen to be believed. It's so horribly written and shot at points it is laugh out loud hilarious, but for the majority of the time is just obnoxious to look at or hear.
Somehow, a movie that wants to be an erotic thriller, had the complete opposite effect on me. Nic Cage IS HOT usually, even now in my opinion, but his greasy hair fused with a terrible mustache and goatee really did not work. In fact no one in this movie is sexy, and that's pretty hard to pull…
From the director of FREE WILLIE 3: THE RESCUE.
Judge Reinhold and Nicolas Cage have a mustache off in this erotic yuppie thriller set in the sweaty streets of NEW OHLLLLEAAAANNS. Of course, because she's the woman at the centre of this testosterone fest, Erika Anderson as the titular Zandalee has very little agency. Boo, the 90s!
Director Sam Pillsbury keeps things moving, but he trips up mightily when Cage does something awful, and still hangs around for the rest of the picture.
Features an amazing parade of cameos which include Steve Buschemi as a garbageman, Joe Pantoliano in drag, and a blink and you'll miss it walk-on featuring GREMLIN'S Zach Galligan that had me go "Was that Zach Galligan? Why would he show up just for that?"
We're inevitable. I wanna shake you naked and eat you alive, Zandalee
So this is the best thing to happen to me so far this year, and it's gonna take a lot to top it.
Nic Cage destroying his art in a glorious Cage Rage and then painting himself black while screaming like a child to Make it All Black!!! you really can't ask for more.
Judge and Nic actually do a dance-off alongside their mustache-off
and
*********spoiler alert********* (but not the ending, just fun shit that happens)
Nic fucks Zandalee in literally the next room from the dinner party while Judge is making small talk with Nic's date. You will only see better cucking in porn. This guy is…
One of my best friends got me the laserdisc for this film recently so now I must get a laserdisc player. This is one of the steamiest and most heartwarming but also heart-shattering films I have ever seen. Just thinking about this film sometimes makes me tear up. Sort of has that effect on you that films like The Elephant Man, Leaving Las Vegas, Ikiru, Paris, Texas, Paddington 2 or Son Of Godzilla have on you. This is like my 6th review of this movie and I will never stop giving this film glowing praise. We need more positive reviews of this film on here.
Whoever hates on this film, you make me sick. Every single one of those elitist…
"I wanna shake you naked and eat you alive."
Another year, another Cage-athon.
Even by the lower standards of 80s/90s Nicolas Cage fare, Zandalee is absolutely inexplicable. It's billed as an erotic thriller, albeit one that is neither erotic nor thrilling. Granted, there are certainly a lot of components that make the experience watchable, namely Erika Anderson's frequent nudity; Judge Reinhold's moustache; and the various supporting appearances by Joe Pantoliano, Steve Buscemi, Marisa Tomei, and Zach Galligan. As a whole, though? This runs the entire bad movie gamut, from preposterous to vomitous.
Cage is kind of amazing though. His hair is insane, his sexual energy is off the charts, and yes, there is a scene where he goes completely nuts…
"When I go into my kitchen and make toast, I smell your skin"
With such an interesting premise as "Moustached Judge Reinhold's wife is having an affair with a crazy and rapey Nicolas Cage", it's such a disappointment when the film is a piece of shit devoid of much entertainment.
Terrible scriptwriting, awful acting and a vomit inducing soundtrack of mostly fiddle and accordion folk music, it's a complete disappointment from the one scene I've got etched into my brain of Cage screaming rubbing himself with paint.
I really hated this. It was completely boring.
"Speak it once in the heart an amen, hallelujah, it's there. That's a religious heart-of-fact."
Of course I had to watch my new favorite doomed romance on Valentine's Day. It gets better on repeat viewings. The uncut version, while steamier, does bring more to the characters and the tragedy of them all. I kinda wish there was more about Johnnie and his dealings with the drug dealers, I could also go for a 3 hour epic of this. Also got me planning a return trip to New Orleans, maybe by train. Happy Romance Day everyone!
This is basically The Room with better acting and a little bit better production design. Lots of sex and infidelity and violence and it’s all just as trashy as you’d expect, though I did find some entertainment value within the chaos. Cage is good, Judge Reinhold is decent, and the story becomes pretty outrageous at a point.
It’s even hornier than Wild at Heart.
Rage In the Cage Rating: 3/5
While Cage does sport a pretty spectacular hair cut and facial hair, he is pretty cool, calm and collected in this, besides a few scenes in which he loses his cool. One in particular involving paint is a classic.
At one point in this movie, Nicolas Cage and Judge Reinhold aggressively dance together. This is not the weirdest part of this movie. The weirdest part is Steve Buscemi cameoing as a philosopher criminal with an extremely thick Cajun accent. THIS IS AN EROTIC THRILLER.
Make no mistake: this is prime Nicolas Cage, and if you've enjoyed his other unhinged performances from this era, then it is a must watch. The all around vibes really test one's patience, however. I feel like the early '90s were rife with these kinds of tonally bizarre movies that are artsy in a lot of dumb ways and now just register as barely watchable. As far as erotic thrillers go, it's neither erotic nor thrilling, but I can assure you that there are some goofy Cajun accents.
from the director of free willy 3 comes the movie where marisa tomei tongue-fucks nicolas cage's ear in front of everyone at the dinner table
My biggest mistake was watching this movie alone. I needed someone to turn to and ask “is this real? Did that just happen? What’s going on? What year is it? Am I hallucinating?” This movie is just so strange. Halfway through I was so bored that I turned it off and was about to write a 1 star review but I owe Cage more than that. Then it just took such a strange turn. I don’t know where to begin.
It’s like those 90s erotic thrillers but this time it’s a woman with a dumb name that cheats on her husband who is the always great Judge Rhinehold, and her seducer is Nicolas Cage. Both sporting incredible mustaches. Rhinehold spends…
Possibly the dullest opening fifty minutes of any film but a bonkers third act and truly impeccable hair (facial & otherwise) from Cage & Reinhold set this apart from other terrible erotic dramas. Buscemi makes an absurd cameo, I can’t even parse the accent he’s doing even if the visuals suggest cajun.
The first few minutes of this movie I assumed I had accidentally turned on a sitcom from the 80s. The font of the opening credits, the cheesy ass music, and the establishing shots of New Orleans were straight out of family matters or full house. Boy, was I wrong in that assumption.
This is one of the horniest movies I have ever seen. “Zandalee” is like the movie version of those cheap soft core porn romance novels you find at the grocery store. The kind of book your Aunt reads at the beach. Zandalee (Erika Anderson) seems to have the most sex of anyone ever, with both her husband Thierry (Judge Reinhold) and his childhood friend Johnny (Nicholas Cage). In…
97 Days of Nic Cage: Day 12
Zandalee finds Nic Cage as a painter in New Orleans who reunites with an old friend and immediately begins sleeping with his friend’s wife. At one point Cage freaks out and pours black paint over himself. He also has a tense dance with Judge Reinhold. Those are two of the only interesting and memorable scenes from the film. He also has a goatee and long hair so it’s a unique Cage look.
Steve Buschemi is shows up a couple times as a thief who says some cool stuff. It also has Marisa Tomei (who’s amazing in My Cousin Vinny if you haven’t seen it) for a couple scenes? But the rest of the film is a combination of sex scenes and boring scenes. It gradually builds to a wild final 15 or 20 minutes where stuff actually happens. Overall, it’s just a slog to watch.
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