‘Mad God’ Exclusive: New Clip Shows Torture as Entertainment In Phil Tippett’s Epic [Watch]
Mary Beth McAndrews
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Phill Tippett’s Mad God is an epic decades in the making. The animation master started work on the film in 1997, storyboarding and creating monsters to populate an expansive hellscape. Now, after Kickstarter campaigns, multiple short films, and sleepless nights, Tippett’s vision has been unleashed onto the world, thanks to Shudder.
In Mad God, a figure known as “The Assassin” descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty. The film features witches, wizards, zombies, gnomes, and so much more.
In his review of the film out of last year’s Fantasia Film Festival, Dread Central’s Drew Tinnin said:
A passion project decades in the making, if it’s not a masterpiece, it’s certainly a masterwork. Tippett’s mad hatter energy and incomparable ingenuity are in full bloom here, reaching a pinnacle of artistry that began way back in 1977 with the legendary animator’s work on Star Wars.
Get a taste of Tippett’s feverish world in this exclusive clip from the film:
While any gore is hidden behind a curtain, these monstrous shadows torturing and tearing a restrained body apart are still horrifying. Tippett makes us use our imagination, then quickly shows the even more upsetting reality of what hides behind that thin layer of fabric.
Mad God is streaming now on Shudder.
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