Mad God

(Phil Tippett, US 2021, 83 min., DCP)

A lone soldier descends through a post-apocalyptic landscape into a nightmarish underworld inhabited by creatures great and small, all of them hostile. His mission is unknown. Special effects maestro Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park) created this (mostly) stop-motion animated fever dream over a thirty year period. He began working on the passion project in 1990 before setting it aside for twenty years and finishing it in the last decade. Inspired as much by Bosch, Freud, and Jung as by Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen, this journey to the unknown is not for the faint of heart.