Mad God's gorgeously ghastly stop-motion animation is heading to Shudder next month
Special effects pioneer Phil Tippett’s feature directorial debut will be available for streaming
People throw the word “visionary” around, but unless you’ve envisioned a sentient blob with undulating udders stomping on mummies, you’ve hardly earned the distinction. Animation and special effects legend Phil Tippett is finally getting the chance to widen the scope of his cinematic vision: Mad God, his stop-motion-animated monstrosity of a feature directorial debut over 30 years in the making, finally arrives on Shudder next month.
The Oscar and Emmy award-winning Tippett is best known for his pioneering effects in Jurassic Park, Robocop, and Star Wars films. Fans of his dazzlingly innovative and bizarre designs include Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhooven, and Guillermo Del Toro—the latter calling him “the man of a thousand creatures.” Judging by the exclusive, newly released Mad God trailer, the writer-director has released all “thousand” of them into one fantastically macabre, eye-poppingly twisted hellscape. Fun!