Phil Tippett’s experimental stop-motion horror film Mad God is visually disturbing and magically captivating at the same time. Simon Abrams writes in his review on RogerEbert.com that “Tippett’s overwhelming descent into his own id also inevitably reveals itself to be about its own miraculous creation. Beautiful and disgusting, mean and awe-inspiring, ‘Mad God’ looks like multiple people died to make it exactly as you see it.”
In a final scene of flashing images, representing the rise and fall of a newly created world, our planet Earth, we see mankind’s triumphs next to the horrors it did unleash. One of these iconic moments shows the infamous portraits of the many Khmer Rouge prisoners at Toul Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh that died there in the most gruesome ways possible.
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“In 1987, legendary visual effects and stop-motion craftsman Phil Tippett embarked upon an ambitious personal project, fabricating and animating a darkly surreal world in which the creatures and nightmares of his imagination could roam free.
Each piece of Mad God is hand crafted, independent and created from the heart. Sometimes that heart is bursting with love for the craft, while other times it’s macabre, punctured, and bleeding. Mad God is a mature film crafted from techniques & technologies that span the history of cinema and the career of a true animation mastermind.” (Mad God official site)
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