'Mad God' is equally weird and demented; a mergence of the nightmarish and the nonsensical into one wildly ambitious ride. Basically it feels like a glimpse into the mind of a madman; into a place both violated and broken without reprieve and without hope.
This is what you get when the imagination is pushed into warped overdrive - a fully realised vision of a hellish dystopia. And all of it is gorgeously (grotesquely) brought to life by stop-motion animation and detailed sets.
It's hard to rate this as I would a film with a story because this is more of an experience: a vignette-like tour through various strange environments and witnessing its even stranger denizens doing all manner of strange things... Top marks for effort, but it might have worked better as a series of 10-minute shorts, since even at 80 minutes my attention began to waver with nothing coherent to latch on to.
6.5/10.
This is what you get when the imagination is pushed into warped overdrive - a fully realised vision of a hellish dystopia. And all of it is gorgeously (grotesquely) brought to life by stop-motion animation and detailed sets.
It's hard to rate this as I would a film with a story because this is more of an experience: a vignette-like tour through various strange environments and witnessing its even stranger denizens doing all manner of strange things... Top marks for effort, but it might have worked better as a series of 10-minute shorts, since even at 80 minutes my attention began to waver with nothing coherent to latch on to.
6.5/10.