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Mad God: A Lock-in at the Crate and Crowbar
Jamie and Marsh climb into their effluent splattered diving-bell and plunge into the bowels, literal and metaphorical, of Mad God, the wildly deranged, deeply harrowing stop-motion masterpiece from animation legend Phil Tippett. Bon appetit!
Mad God has been released on Shudder, a horror streaming service.
Fellow Hell-depicters of yore: Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Breughel
This is definitely not the Dark Crystal.
A few of the stop-motion references we carry with us:
Harry Hausen films, e.g. Clash of the Titans
Aardman Animations’ work, including their brilliant Wallace & Gromit films
Cosgrove Hall’s Wind in the Willows
I made tea and coffee on the set where the model shots for Blackadder: Back & Forth were composed/animated
The Fast Show’s animation sketch
The Shivering Truth – a body horror take on stop-frame
Pingu’s The Thing, aka Thingu
Phil Tippett’s credits include Star Wars (including the AT-AT battle on Hoth, Robocop, Tremors 2, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers and the astonishingly silly-sounding Virus.
Potential influences or comparative works:
The films of Andrei Tarkovsky
Horrendous mud-slathered pseudo-medieval madness: Hard to be a God
Powerfully grim war film: Come and See
Bill Plimpton’s films
Beautiful documentary about catharsis and obsession: Marwencol
Jan Švankmajer’s films, Little Otik and Alice
Other references we make:
Michael Haneke’s Funny Games
Dante’s Inferno (not the videogame)
Low’s album, Double Negative
Matthew Barney’s epic Cremaster cycle is “a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of five feature-length films”. Well!
Other things on Shudder you can watch with a temporary sub: White Girl, The Babadook, A Field in England, Ginger Snaps, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, REC, ABCs of Death, VHS 94, Possum and… Heathers???
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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Jamie and Marsh climb into their effluent splattered diving-bell and plunge into the bowels, literal and metaphorical, of Mad God, the wildly deranged, deeply harrowing stop-motion masterpiece from animation legend Phil Tippett. Bon appetit!
Mad God has been released on Shudder, a horror streaming service.
Fellow Hell-depicters of yore: Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Breughel
This is definitely not the Dark Crystal.
A few of the stop-motion references we carry with us:
Harry Hausen films, e.g. Clash of the Titans
Aardman Animations’ work, including their brilliant Wallace & Gromit films
Cosgrove Hall’s Wind in the Willows
I made tea and coffee on the set where the model shots for Blackadder: Back & Forth were composed/animated
The Fast Show’s animation sketch
The Shivering Truth – a body horror take on stop-frame
Pingu’s The Thing, aka Thingu
Phil Tippett’s credits include Star Wars (including the AT-AT battle on Hoth, Robocop, Tremors 2, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers and the astonishingly silly-sounding Virus.
Potential influences or comparative works:
The films of Andrei Tarkovsky
Horrendous mud-slathered pseudo-medieval madness: Hard to be a God
Powerfully grim war film: Come and See
Bill Plimpton’s films
Beautiful documentary about catharsis and obsession: Marwencol
Jan Švankmajer’s films, Little Otik and Alice
Other references we make:
Michael Haneke’s Funny Games
Dante’s Inferno (not the videogame)
Low’s album, Double Negative
Matthew Barney’s epic Cremaster cycle is “a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of five feature-length films”. Well!
Other things on Shudder you can watch with a temporary sub: White Girl, The Babadook, A Field in England, Ginger Snaps, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, REC, ABCs of Death, VHS 94, Possum and… Heathers???
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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