Mad God: Phil Tippett releases horrifying teaser for his stop-motion movie

Last Updated on August 10, 2021

Phil Tippett is a legendary Oscar-winning VFX artist who has worked on the original Star Wars trilogy, Robocop, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, and so much more, but he's also apparently got a brain full of nightmarish images. While working on Robocop 2 thirty years ago, Phil Tippett began animating a stop-motion movie known as Mad God, but he later abandoned the project when he started working on Jurassic Park. It took nearly twenty years before he returned to Mad God, but at long last, it's complete. You can check out the teaser above, which is full of all sorts of horrifying creatures and images. I love it.

The film follows a character known as The Assassin, and Phil Tippett has said that "The final form of Mad God isn’t the film itself, but the memory after you watch it. It’s bringing you to that moment just after waking up from a dream, frozen, exploring fragments of your feral mind before they fade back into the shadows. That’s the moment. Mad God is just a way to get you there." Sounds like it will be quite the experience. I can't wait.

Mad God will debut at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and the Fantasia International Film Festival in Canada next month.