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Mad God is a 2021 American adult stop-motion-animated film written, produced, and directed by Phil Tippett. Completed in 2021, it was produced over a period of 30 years. Mad God premiered at the Locarno Festival on August 5, 2021, and was released in the United States by Shudder on June 16, 2022.
Plot
A tall figure shrouded in a jacket and gas mask, credited as the Assassin, descends into a ruined, hellish world via a diving bell. In his possession are a map and a briefcase. Traveling through the underworld, he encounters many creatures mercilessly preyed upon by larger monsters as well as elaborate machines of torture and death. Eventually, he reaches a city which is home to an army of faceless drones, apparently ruled by a monstrosity with filthy teeth and seared flesh who only speaks in baby babble as it is only seen as closeups of its eyes and mouth on screens attached to a tower. Deep within the city's bowels, the Assassin discovers a mountain of briefcases just like his own. He opens his briefcase, revealing a time bomb, which he places and prepares to set off. He fails to notice a creeping monster behind him, which then attacks and drags him away as the bomb's ticking hand appears unable to complete its circuit. The Assassin is shackled to a table and stripped in front of a mass of spectators watching the silhouette in a theater and laughing. A surgeon appears with a nurse, splits open the Assassin's abdomen, and begins rummaging through his chest cavity. Jewelry and papers are pulled out and thrown to the floor. Eventually, the surgeon finds his goal: a strange, wailing, infant larva-like creature. The surgeon hands it to the nurse, who carries it away. The surgeon bores a hole in the Assassin's head and connects his brain to a television set. As the surgeon watches the television, the world above is shown, where a man known as the Last Man gives a map forged by gnarled witches to an Assassin and sends him down in a diving bell. Riding a motorcycle and then driving a jeep, the Assassin follows the map through a munitions depot, a graveyard and a war zone before descending a spiral roadway. Back in the underworld, the nurse brings the infant to a ghostly, floating creature who escorts the child to an alchemist's lair. The alchemist grinds the infant into liquid, then alchemically transforms its remains into gold. This gold is then used to create a new cosmos which undergoes the same cycle of evolution, civilization and self-destruction as the previous one. In doing so, the Assassin's bomb's countdown concludes.
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