Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Starship Troopers are just a few of the major films Phil Tippett has worked on. According to his own statements, the pioneering stop and go motion specialist worked on his film for 30 years nightmarish fantasy horror work Mad God and now the film is coming to Germany for the first time.
The special edition of Mad God will be released on May 23, 2024 with two Blu-rays and an additional DVD, which you can download Get it now on Amazon * can. Bonus material includes a documentary and featurettes, audio commentary and two booklets and posters.
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Disturbing fantasy horror: That’s what Mad God is all about
In Mad God, a nameless assassin descends into a hellish world via a diving bell horrifying monsters, mad scientists and war pigs becomes. On his way through the sadistic underworld he has to overcome all sorts of dangers and is ultimately supposed to detonate a bomb in a no less monstrous city, but everything doesn’t go according to plan.
The stop-motion film, which was financed with the help of a crowdfunding campaign and described as experimental, was first publicly shown in full length in 2021 as part of the selection of the Locarno Film Festival and was released in a few US cinemas in 2022. It wasn’t just director Guillermo del Toro who praised Phil Tippett as “a master, a teacher, a titan“, but also
generally mostly pretty positive reviews.
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The fantasy horror film Mad God was so well received by critics
Not only in the Moviepilot community does the film, which was created exclusively in classic manual effects style, have a solid standing with an average of 6.9 out of 10 points, Mad God also has an equally high audience rating of 69 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, while the Approval rate in 92 reviews with an average of 91 percent is significantly higher.
Mad God – Trailer (German) HD
The consensus of the reviews collected by the rating platform is that it is one “rich visual treat for film fans“ whose cinematic appeal of stop-motion animation remains strong even in the age of today’s standard computer animation.
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