There’s something uniquely satisfying about claymation gore. The thick, mealy texture of it rips, peels, bubbles, and spews in ways that evoke the best work of Italian horror icons like Lucio Fulci. Lee Hardcastle, a U.K. filmmaker and “one-stop-shop claymation studio,” has made this kind of exploitation his bread and…
Rick And Morty’s long-awaited third season is set to finally come out (deep breath) July 30. While most of the cause of the delay has been, according to creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, because of their meticulous writing process, they’ve also kept busy with comic books, a VR game, video-game de-makes, and a…
At times it can seem that the internet has been tamed—that the strange bacteria that once thrived in forums and MMOs and imageboards has now entirely been colonized and categorized and (dismayingly) radicalized. New memes are about memes; new internet celebrities are cannibalized almost as soon as they are created.
The gory social-experiment horror flick The Belko Experiment comes out tomorrow, but parties interested in getting a dose of its brand of visceral workplace brutality are in luck. Filmmakers Greg McLean and James T. Gunn teamed up with animator Lee Hardcastle, a stop-motion specialist with a taste for the macabre, to…
The Simpsons’ couch gag has become a great place for innovative filmmakers and artists to show off their take on the iconic nuclear family and the many denizens of Springfield. From the creators of Rick And Morty, to Don Hertzfeldt, Guillermo Del Toro, John K., and many others, all have left their individual stamp on…
