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Mad God

Released Jun 16, 2022 1h 23m Horror Fantasy Animation Adventure TRAILER for List
92% Tomatometer 95 Reviews 68% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques. MAD GOD is a labor of love, a testament to the power of creative grit, and an homage to the timeless art of stop-motion animation. Ready your eyes. Ready your spirit. Prepare to meet your maker.
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A rich visual treat for film fans, Mad God proves that even in the age of CGI, the cinematic allure of stop-motion animation remains strong.

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Jordan Hoffman Decider This is a true, old school midnight movie, meant to expand your mind, initiate conversation and perhaps inspire you to stay up late one night working on something creative. Everyone in college should be forced to watch movies like this. Dec 14, 2022 Full Review David Sims The Atlantic There is a plot of sorts and plenty of grisly stop-motion violence, but Mad God is most impressive as a work of sheer atmosphere, a visual experience that is actually unlike any other. Aug 3, 2022 Full Review Adam Nayman The Ringer The best compliment you can pay to Mad God is to say it’s made in the image of its creator. Jul 9, 2022 Full Review William Stottor Loud and Clear Reviews Mad God is an apocalyptic nightmare of the highest order and boasts some of the most impressive stop-motion animation and world-building of the year. Rated: 4/5 Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Kyle Logan Castle of Chills Issues with the plot are minuscule compared to the literally awesome images and worlds created in the film. Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Xero Gravity Big Gold Belt Media "I would urge you to avoid asking yourself any narrative questions either before or during your screening." Rated: 4/5 Jul 8, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Michael Antony A Mikey’s Film Review: Mad God (2022) American film director and VFX supervisor Phil Tippett (73) has been one of Hollywood’s most prolific artists for almost 50 years. Specializing in creature design, stop-motion and computerized character animation he has worked with the likes of ILM and Dreamworks on such films as the Star Wars and Indiana Jones sagas, Piranha, Dragonslayer, Howard The Duck, RoboCop, Willow, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Jurassic Park, Dragonheart, Starship Troopers, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Twilight Saga and most recently, Alien: Romulus. Founding his own Tippett Studio in 1984. Mad God is his 85 minute, mostly stop-motion labour of love that took 30 years to complete, was released in 2022, is now finally available to stream. I say ‘mostly’ because cult director Alex Cox (Repo Man) appears in a handful of live action scenes. Considering Tippett’s legacy it’s surprising then that the film, while fascinating and at times truly impressive, is possibly a ‘one time watch and done’ experience. Let down by a somewhat meandering, nonsensical narrative. A masked figure from an Earth like world at war drops from the sky in a diving bell and descends into a Dante-like Hell. As we travel deeper and deeper through a cruel, miserable underworld of horrors, the figure (named in the credits as The Assassin) simply watches and tries to avoid the large monstrous creatures that dwell there. Each more terrifying than the next, who’s only reason to exist seems to be to torture, squash, flay, stomp, burn and devour the smaller thin faceless humanoid like creatures… while other entities are simply killed, liquified and fed to a further disparate array of grotesques! Masterbating dolls, perverse mutilation and an extremely visceral autopsy (to retrieve a maggot like baby) are probably not required viewing for the average animation fan! Although admittedly, there’s also a macabre playfullness here too that will delight some while repulsing others. I’ve never seen or experienced anything quite like Mad God. Unsettling but infinitely inventive. My favourite stop-motion film - the goulish A Nightmare Before Christmas is laughably tame in comparison… If you’ve ever been thrilled by Tippett’s previous work you might want to take a look. But, you have been warned - it’s not for the faint at heart!😅 Mikey’s Film Rating: 3/5* Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/05/24 Full Review Millie T This film sucks, has no essence or intention. Made to indulge in gore, and make "meaningful" statements, for what gain????? It's all meaningless! Lifeless stuffed corpse of a film, taxidermy. The frustrating thing is that so much effort went into it, but it was completely misguided. to clarify I am not averse to gore, or horror, but there needs to be some kind of juice. So much skillful model making, and yet no vision? Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/15/24 Full Review Andrew R Mad God is impressive yet draining. Not a frame passes that doesn't show absolute care and attention to detail, but I wouldn't watch it again. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/08/24 Full Review Oaklee D I was so keen to see this film when it came out and was so excited when i got a copy. loved it even though the plot is minimal. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/05/24 Full Review Jonah K Sacrifices a traditional narrative for some phenomenal, depraved, world building. Truly a singular vision, overflowing with creativity. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/31/24 Full Review Hell N This is not a movie. No plot, no story or overall concept in general. Had to speed up to x4 speed half way through, pacing still seemed to slow. Only target audience might be film students who want to learn more about stop motion, thats it. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/30/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques. MAD GOD is a labor of love, a testament to the power of creative grit, and an homage to the timeless art of stop-motion animation. Ready your eyes. Ready your spirit. Prepare to meet your maker.
Director
Phil Tippett
Producer
Phil Tippett
Screenwriter
Phil Tippett
Production Co
Tippett Studio
Genre
Horror, Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 16, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 16, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA)
$322.4K
Runtime
1h 23m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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