We Need More Movies As Gross As Mad God
This article contains spoilers for Mad God, though, in our estimation, Mad God is not really spoil-able.
Mad God is a completely singular vision. The sci-fi horror film, released earlier this year, is the product of 30 years of work, directed by Phil Tippett during breaks from his primary career as one of Hollywood's preeminent experts in stop-motion animation. If you know Tippett's name, it's likely due to his work on iconic films like RoboCop and Jurassic Park (on which he served as "Dinosaur Supervisor"). Over the decades, though, Tippett has been working away, on his own terms and on his own time, on a movie that would never get financed through Hollywood's traditional channels.
In part, that's because Mad God, in Tippett's own words, is more of a "collage" than a traditional narrative. It follows a character called the Assassin — faceless in a black helmet, gas mask, and steampunk goggles— as he descends into an industrial hell world where most creatures we see are introduced only to be reduced to pulp by other, larger creatures. Zombie-like bipeds approach a hole in the ground, peer into it as flames belch upward, and are reduced instantly to charred husks. Elsewhere, similar ghouls rake the dusty earth before being flattened by a steamroller, also operated by zombies. Later, a dinosaur-like creature, covered in massive breast- and testicle-like hanging pustules, approaches one of the zombies and tramples it into jelly.
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Eventually, the Assassin is ambushed by an insectoid creature with knives for teeth. When we see him next, he is on an operating table, as a surgeon and nurse leer at him, their surgical masks covered in blood. The
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