Mad God

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Sometimes that heart is bursting with love for the craft, while other times it's macabre, punctured, and bleeding. A figure known as "The Assasin" as descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans and cruelty.

As I mentioned earlier, I have little knowledge of stop-motion, and for someone like me, “Maya Tippett’s The Making of Mad God ” was a welcome dive into this world of effects work. We now come to what I find is the most captivating feature on the disc: “Maya Tippett’s Worse Than A Demon. A row of giant humanoids with bagged heads and flashing electric wiring writhe painfully as pinkish fluid gushes incessantly from them, funnelled into the gaping maw of some… thing making accordion sounds with exposed, expanding balloon udders. There have been writings about the meaning behind Mad God , which is not the point of today’s article.It simply but effectively conveys the severe levels of exploitation that forms the messy and cruel foundations upon which the grand tower we briefly see in the beginning is built. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.

This release serves as a refutation to that, both in the film’s narrative of persistence in spite of suffering and its mere existence as a stop-motion film in a genre that constantly has to justify itself. The goal of this column is not to say whether a film is good or bad and worth picking up or not—I would like to highlight the discs that go the extra mile and provide film fans with enough tasty tidbits to satisfy even the hungriest of cinephiles. The aforementioned Gassenhauer also appears, along with a bit of choral music and tracks by Berlioz and Strauss. There’s also a piece on the collaboration between the project and Academy of Art University, a moody behind-the-scenes montage, and a gallery of behind-the-scenes images.

On the one hand, it allows award-winning filmmaker del Toro to champion the film’s importance and his commentary with Tippett is best summarised with the moment when he just listens to Tippett talking and repeatedly and breathlessly exclaims, “wow”. There are, of course, a multitude of reactions that one can have upon seeing Phil Tippett’s Mad God, but those are certainly the first two words that came to my mind as its credits rolled to the cheery sounds of Neusidler’s Gassenhauer. Some of Tippett’s comments from the prior track crop up again, but we also hear about the intricacies that each of his team contributed to Mad God . There’s no Digital copy, but both discs come in lovely Steelbook packaging with the Assassin character on the cover. Tippett describes seeing a gigantic dark being lurking behind a screen – “its intentions were very bad,” but “instead of running away, I imagined that what I had to do to confront the demon was to be worse than the demon.