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- 2022
- Unrated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 23 m
- 2022
- Unrated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 23 m
Summary Mad God is an experimental animated film set in a world of monsters, mad scientists and war pigs. A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city, settling down upon an ominous fortress guarded by zombie-like sentries. The Assassin emerges to explore a labyrinth of bizarre, desolate landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens. Through...
Directed By: Phil Tippett
Written By: Phil Tippett
- 2022
- Unrated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 23 m
- 2022
- Unrated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 23 m
Mad God
80
6.7
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Summary Mad God is an experimental animated film set in a world of monsters, mad scientists and war pigs. A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city, settling down upon an ominous fortress guarded by zombie-like sentries. The Assassin emerges to explore a labyrinth of bizarre, desolate landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens. Through...
Directed By: Phil Tippett
Written By: Phil Tippett
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
80
86% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
80
86% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Imagine, if you will, a dystopian nightmare set in a post-industrialized world that’s forever teetering on its last legs, but never quite falls over. This description does not, admittedly, tell you much, but the movie’s less of a narrative-driven parable than a dazzling and corrosively cynical vision of a hyper-compartmentalized society that’s struggling to both die and reset.
Tippett purges his Id until he’s wrung the last bit of bile from the Assassin’s journey, but even throughout all the harrowing imagery, the director never loses a sense of cinematic wonder.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 44 User Ratings
6.7
66% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
16% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
18% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 44 User Ratings
6.7
66% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
16% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
18% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Disgustingly beautiful - like Grandfather Nurgle made a movie. Some things you see and you don't know WHY they are **** you know that they ARE gross and that's pretty interesting.
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For anyone who loves stop-motion animation, the first 40 minutes of this bleak adventure will scratch your trippy itch and then some.
Tippett himself said he did not intend Mad God to adhere to any strict narrative structure, so it’s best to merely soak in the sumptuous, detailed visuals and extract your own meaning from the journey. It’s a ferociously engaging, if slightly flawed, viewing experience.
Mad God offers a dense cornucopia of genre-fueled outrageousness that’s gradually united by a concern with cycles of warfare.
It’s a nightmare, and not one a mainstream audience would relish. But aficionados of this nearly extinct form of special effects will relish the chance to see a labor of love whose roots go back to circa 1987.
If it’s worth reciting the decades it took to pack all this imagery into sets so dark that much of it doesn’t register, it’s also worth noting that effects folk are, by definition, masters of making the trees. Whether or not they grasp the “forest” and can tell a compelling, coherent story about it isn’t exactly a given.
This is by far probably one of the best (if not) the best stop motion movie that probably exists there. The stop motion animation and abominations that were in the movie was just amazing. There is just so much creativity and imagination in creating various tools and scenes that made this movie feel incredibly alive and hellish.This can be interpreted in a few ways but for me it felt like a post-modern version of Dante's Inferno. The descent of our character into different types of ''Hell's'' with their own cities describing different type of sins was amazing(my interpretation anyway) surrounded by hellish creatures which in my opinion only a really **** up mind can create was just am amazing and very imaginative and creative experience. The sound and music was also great and fit the piece perfectly (there were a few scenes where the sound effects didn't match the style but they are rare). It also appears that this was 30 years in the making which is possibly one of the longest creation of animated movies that have released (Not forgetting Yuri Norstein and Francheska Yarbusova the overcoat which is by now probably 50 years in the making). This is a must watch to see a personal hell of the creator and it's overflow with imagination and other **** up creations. It's not for everyone but for the few that will watch it they will definitely enjoy it.
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'Mad God' is a bizarre experiment that takes you to a world full of all the ¿human? fluids you could ever imagine. Through a nightmarish setting and some disturbing images, the legendary Phil Tippet delivers what could probably be the culmination of his brilliant career. But, at least for me, this is too impenetrable to get involved. A little narrative would've been nice. The stop-motion looks amazing and terrifying, but the live-action segments didn't blend in that well. Although I appreciate the 30-year effort to bring this to life, I didn't find it that special, at least in storytelling terms. But who am I to criticize one of the best film animators of all time?
Warning: don't watch this while eating.
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Gruesome horror art in motion. If you have a thing for gore, grime, and grotesque things... this may be the film for you. Where Mad God lacks in plot and dialog, it more than makes up for with its post-apocalyptic visuals, incredible stop-motion, and ominous musical score. Viewer be warned: this movie is not for the squeamish!
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An auteur's passion project, pointedly grotesque and realized via an odd medium? Yes please.
Or rather not. This should have been a solid 10 from me but the film fails to deliver. The lack of readily apparent narrative (the film contains no dialog) leaves this a series of vignettes that burn through all the best ideas in the first 30 minutes, then proceeds to overstay its welcome for another hour. Sound design was noticeably poor IMHO, and maybe I've been desensitized but non of the visuals were as grotesque or shocking as had been billed.
Watch it for the "experience", but if you find your eyelids growing heavy after 40 minutes or so feel free to switch it off, you're not missing anything.
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Production Company
Tippett Studio
Release Date Jun 16, 2022
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Unrated
Tagline A Journey Beyond your Wildest Nightmares
Website
https://www.madgodmovie.com/
Awards
Fantasia Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US
• 2 Nominations