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Mad God

2021

Phil Tippett

Animation, Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Harper Taylor ...

6.6

1,214

Animation. Horror. Sci-Fi 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"The elaborately designed worlds the camera glides through do create a credible hermetic reality unto themselves"	POS
United States	Rafael Motamayor IndieWire	"'Mad God' exudes devotion, with every frame carrying decades worth of ideas and craft, resulting in a film that is just as hard to describe as it is hard to forget."	POS
United States	Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"[It] feels like a movie that exists in spite of the general working conditions of modern filmmaking (...) 'Mad God' is going to outlast most of us (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kristy Puchko IGN	"'Mad God' is not a film to be enjoyed but experienced (...) Your mind — like mine -- may grow frustrated searching for a plot or a meaning to the madness unfurled"	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"Our eyes are tickled by the wealth of sensory stimulation, while our souls are sickened by the carnage and unrelenting hopelessness (...) A compact, despairing, wildly inventive song of mourning (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Mark Hanson In The Seats	"[It] portrays a journey into Hell that’s among the most viscerally hallucinogenic as anything ever seen in the medium (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Martin Kudlac Screen Anarchy	"Tippett's film is a highly visual experience of an enigmatic apocalyptic epic from the deepest bowels of imagination (...) Equally disturbing as it is captivating"	POS
Canada	Caitlin Chappell CBR	"The world is one that fans of the strange and unusual will want to play in and see what else lurks in the shadows of, and it will leave viewers excited for what Tippett has in store next. However, it is a lot to take in at once"	NEU
United States	Jordan Hoffman Decider	"After all Phil Tippett has given you over the years, the least you can do is watch his labor of love. Dim the lights, get in the zone, and freak out to this strange, grotesque, and inexplicable movie."	POS
United States	BJ Colangelo SlashFilm	"Tippett is a virtuoso who was able to make what he wanted, exactly as intended, in the current world of filmmaking where artistry is treated like a sacrificial lamb in favor of capitalist gains"	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"The best parts of 'Mad God' remind you of the practical-magic tactility of non-digital effects —and the unfettered possibility of a creative mind plumbing its darkest, strangest depths. It's a feast for animation heads"	POS
United Kingdom	Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"Undoubtedly a work of historic significance, made by a master in his field –but beware that it often feels like a film-making notebook, full of doodles and ideas but not especially cohesive as a story (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Martin Kudlac Screen Anarchy	"A marvel to behold (...) 'Mad God' is an extreme viewing of madness and macabre as it is an artistic achievement not solely in pushing limits"	POS
United States	Dom Sinacola Paste Magazine	"It's deeply upsetting, and often just as stirring. It would be a pretty clearly nihilistic piece of work, too, were it not such a careful, frequently astounding achievement"	POS

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