SHE'S STILL BURNING
- The Black Skulls biker gang. They don't even qualify as human, they're monsters. Special mention goes to Fuck Pig, who's shown to have raped an elderly couple to death a la Se7en. The body might also be the cultist that's...offered...as compensation for their services.
- As Red fights the last of them, he says in a gut-clenching voice, "SHE'S STILL BURNING!". Assuming these guys are supernatural beings, he's likely telling Red that Mandy was sent to Hell upon being burned.
- Jeremiah Sand is made of Nightmare Fuel. He may seem like a pathetic, limp-wristed coward and a fraud hiding behind his followers and the Black Skulls gang, but have it be known that if you laugh at him and/or his music, he won't hesitate to subject you to a horrible death. Even his own followers aren't safe from him. Bonus points for the fact that he murdered his own parents and started cults with gruesome initiation ceremonies all the way back in high school. It also appears that he may actually have some sort of power, seeing how he acquired the Tainted Blade of the Pale Knight from the Abyss. What makes him even more chilling is the fact that there have been people like him in real life such as Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, David Berg and Brian David Mitchell and there probably still are today.
- His introduction. As ominous music that sounds like something out of The Shining or Nosferatu plays in the background, we see him creepily observing Mandy over his black glasses as she walks past his van. We see her from his point of view, frozen in time, looking like a picture of a missing person. This is the moment his obsession with her begins.
- The next scene, which is Sand's Establishing Character Moment, is deeply, subtly menacing. He's mercilessly and aggressively insulting his most devout supporter, Mother Marlene, even as she tries to comfort him. Sand orders her to get Brother Swan for him, and when she agrees to do so, he yells at her again, just for not going quickly enough for his liking. His interaction with Brother Swan is also unsettling.
- His speech to Mandy in which he describes speaking to God and being given permission by him to go out into the world and take whatever it is he wants, whether it's his needs or simply his wants and desires. The camera shows his face merging with Mandy's showing his lack of respect for boundaries and his narcissistic inability to see others as separate from himself. It's heavily implied that the "God" he communicated with may actually be Satan himself, which explains how he came by supernatural relics like the Horn of Abraxas and the Tainted Blade of the Abyss.
- The home invasion sequence. Red and Mandy are sleeping peacefully ... until the Black Skulls show up and hold them down, either one completely unable to do anything to help the other, and one of the cultists is shown in the window being dragged off to his death by Skratch.
- In the scene where Mandy laughs at Jeremiah, she looks positively insane while shrieking with laughter. Her laughter sounding more and more demonic doesn't help, although she's doing it on purpose just to humiliate Jeremiah.
- Mandy's death, where the cult seals her in a sleeping bag that gets lit on fire, is an easy contender for the most disturbing and devastating part of the film. Apart from a few eerie shots of cultists watching the bag burn with blank stares, we also see it continuously moving around once it's consumed by the flames, implying that she's not only burning alive but futilely kicking and thrashing as she burns. Brrrr.
- The cultist's reactions are chilling; Kloplek has this insanely wide grin while licking his teeth, Hanker pretends to shoot her before he gains a face-splitting grin, Lucy has an almost remorseful look on her face, Marlene smirks at seeing the burning, and Jeremiah... just has this expressionless face; one that neither sad nor angry, not happy, not even smug. It's chilling.
- Red's first nightmare, wherein he sees Mandy naked from behind, and she turns around to reveal a pair of red eyes and a rotting face. The sequence being entirely animated doesn't reduce its scariness.
- One of Red's hallucinations after ingesting some of the Black Skulls' tainted LSD is a vision of his face melting off his skull.
- Red becomes quite terrifying once he ingests the Skulls' LSD, although it's also satisfying to watch him get his revenge largely in silence.
- The further into his rampage of revenge Red goes, the less he speaks. By the time he gets to Sand, he finally says something, but his voice sounds like the Devil. His humanity slowly died after losing Mandy.
- The Chemist. He stands and cooks his batch nearly naked, listening to distorted noise on a radio, and seems to mentally talk to Red, answer his questions and guide him while most likely high as a kite. Also helped he's played by Richard Brake.
- The death of Jeremiah Sand, much as he deserved it. Red grabs his head and crushes it between his hands, and we're given a glorious view of the cult leader's eye popping out of its socket. Brutal.
- That creepy grin
◊ that Red gives when he sees Mandy at the end. It could be him feeling overjoyed to see the love of his life again, but it looks far too deranged for it to be anything less than that of a man who's lost his marbles. - Although the song can only be faintly heard in the movie and is otherwise a case of Stylistic Suck, the final verse carries some disturbing implications for the universe the movie's set in, assuming Jeremiah is anything more than a delusional fraud.The rushing fools in plastic homes
These busy little bees
Running, busy back and forth
They never see
Their master’s hand in everything
The order of the trees
The song that’s whistling on the breeze
This song of you and me - A video of Jeremiah recording one of his songs, "Message from the Mountain", in a dark recording studio while someone obscured in the shadows watches him. As the video goes on, the camera slowly zooms in on Jeremiah until it's completely on his face. The singing continues, even though Jeremiah has stopped. He then looks right at the camera while making all kinds of weird expressions.
