Shudder 10: Mad God (2022)
- Today, Jun 12
Director: Phil Tippett Run Time: 83 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2022
Starring: Alex Cox, Brynn Taylor, Harper Taylor, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda
Country: United States
Language: None
Screening as part of the Shudder 10 Screening Series
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium horror streaming service, celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2025. Learn more below.
About the film:
Premiered at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival. Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
“Exudes devotion, with every frame carrying decades worth of ideas and craft, resulting in a film that is just as hard to describe as it is hard to forget.”
—Rafael Motamayor for IndieWire
Mad God is a labor of love, a testament to the power of creative grit, and an homage to the timeless art of stop-motion animation. Ready your eyes. Ready your spirit. Prepare to meet your maker.
About the filmmaker:
Legendary VFX artist Phil Tippett revolutionized creature design, stop-motion, and CG-character animation, winning Academy Awards for his work on Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) and Jurassic Park (1993). He led the animation team at Industrial Light and Magic before founding his own Tippett Studio. Over his decades-long career, he has contributed VFX to many projects, including Piranha (1978), RoboCop (1988), Dragonheart (1997), and Starship Troopers (1998).
Thirty years in the making, Tippett’s personal masterwork Mad God (2022) was funded through a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign and screened at film festivals all over the world.
About the series:
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium horror streaming service, will mark its 10-year anniversary and a decade of the best in horror with its most terrifyingly ambitious programming slate to date, special fan events, customized merchandise and more.
Kicking off in April and running through the fall, Shudder’s nationwide screening tour, “Shudder 10 Screening Series,” will feature a curated selection of Shudder films that are making their big screen debut.
The tour will make stops at IFC Center in New York City, Music Box in Chicago, SIFF in Seattle, The Coolidge in Boston, Popcorn Frights Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Gateway Film Center in Columbus, Screenland Armor in Kansas City, all Soho House locations and more.
This film first premiered at the Film Center on June 17, 2022.
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