![]() ![]() Twenty years later, with the encouragement of members of his studio, Tippett began working on the project again, utilizing crews of volunteers to assist him. His work on Jurassic Park led him to believe the days of stop-motion were over, and the film was shelved. While working on RoboCop 2, Tippett began filming what would become Mad God. In doing so, the clock in the assassin's bomb appears to somehow restart and complete its circuit. This gold is then used to create a new cosmos which undergoes the same cycle of evolution, civilization and self-destruction as the previous one. The alchemist grinds the infant into liquid, then alchemically transforms its remains into gold. Driving a motorcycle and then a jeep, the assassin follows the map through a munitions depot, a graveyard and a war zone before descending a spiral roadway.īack in the underworld, the nurse brings the infant to a ghostly, floating creature who escorts the child to an alchemist's lair. As the surgeon watches the television, the world above is shown, where the last man gives a map forged by gnarled witches to an assassin and sends him down in a diving bell. The surgeon bores a hole in the assassin's head and hooks his brain to a television set. The surgeon hands it to the nurse, who carries it away. Eventually, the surgeon finds his goal: a strange, infant larva-like creature that is wailing. ![]() Jewelry and papers are pulled out and thrown to the floor. A surgeon appears with a nurse, splits open the assassin's abdomen, and begins rummaging through his chest cavity. The assassin is shackled to a table and stripped in front of a mass of spectators. He fails to notice a creeping monster behind him, which then attacks and drags him away as the bomb's ticking hand appears unable to complete its circuit of the clock. The assassin opens his suitcase, revealing a timed bomb, which he places and prepares to set off. Deep within the city's bowels, the assassin discovers a mountain of suitcases just like his own. Eventually, he reaches a city which is home to an army of faceless drones, apparently ruled by a monstrosity with filthy teeth and seared flesh who speaks in baby babble. Traveling through the underworld, the assassin encounters many creatures mercilessly preyed upon by larger monsters. In his possession, the assassin has a map and a suitcase. The film received critical acclaim upon its release.Ī tall figure shrouded in a jacket and gas mask, credited as the assassin, descends into a ruined, hellish world via a diving bell. Mad God had its world premiere at the Locarno Festival on August 5, 2021, and was released in the United States on Jby Shudder. Completed in 2021, the film was produced over a period of thirty years. Mad God is a 2021 American stop-motion adult animated experimental horror film written, produced, and directed by Phil Tippett. ![]()
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