

Mad God
A journey beyond your wildest nightmares.
A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
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6.8/10
601 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $250K
- Box office
- $322.6K
- Language
- No Language
- assassin
- bomb
- surrealism
- exploration
- stop motion
- adult animation
- disturbed
- alchemist
- war
- 3d animation
- underworld
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereFantastic Fest23 Sept 2021
- PremiereBeyond Fest5 Oct 2021
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival22 Oct 2021
- Theatrical (limited)NRUnrated16 Jun 2022
- Digital / OTTNRUnrated, AMC+16 Jun 2022
- PhysicalNRUnrated, DVD/Blu-Ray6 Dec 2022
United KingdomGB
- PremiereEdinburgh International Film Festival21 Aug 2021
- Digital / OTT18Shudder16 Jun 2022
- Physical18DVD / Blu-Ray6 Dec 2022
AustraliaAU
- PhysicalMA 15+5 Dec 2022
CanadaCA
- PremiereFantasia International Film Festival22 Aug 2021
ArgentinaAR
- PremiereMar del Plata Film Festival21 Nov 2021
BelgiumBE
- PremiereRazor Reel Flanders Film Festival5 Nov 2021
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereThe Shockproof Film Festival30 Oct 2021
FranceFR
- PremiereL'Etrange Festival15 Sept 2021
- Theatrical26 Apr 2023
- PhysicalDVD & Blu-Ray3 Oct 2023
GermanyDE
- PremiereOldenburg Film Festival17 Sept 2021
- Physical16DVD / Bluray23 May 2024
- Theatrical (limited)16Randfilmfest26 Sept 2026
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival4 Nov 2021
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT18Shudder16 Jun 2022
JapanJP
- Theatrical2 Dec 2022
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Mad God was released on 17 September 2021.
Audience reviews
4- C7/10
Chris Sawin
8/22/2021
Mad God is a terrifying triumph to animation. It is mesmerizing, unique, and disgusting through and through. The ruined city in the film is coated in these overwhelming layers of grunge and unknown fluids that practically ooze onto the audience. The film seems to draw homage from the Labyrinth Cenobites reside in from the Hellraiser films. Apart from taking away that we’re all doomed to repeat the same pain and angui…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
8/15/2022
Wow, but the quality of the stop-motion animation in this is breathtaking. On a big screen, the detailed movement of characters and settings alike; the clever use of light and shade look superb - it's really quite an astonishing piece of art to enjoy. The story itself is almost incidental - it centres around a gas-mask clad human lowered into a dystopian environment of ruins and hideous mutations where life and limb …
- K
kisaligol
10/3/2022
As a technical artistic piece demonstrating the expressive power of stop motion cinematography, it is a triumph. As a story, it is a eighth grade goth kid sitting in the back of class, doodling their inner turmoil and profound nihilism. Most of the metaphors relating to our world (e.g., work, medicine, military, birth-rebirth, religion, etc.) rarely rise above that depressed 8th grade standard. Still, I'd rather watc…
- H10/10
Horseface
3/30/2024
Jesus. Christ. What the hell did I just watch? And who on earth is Phil Tippett? And please, Phil, more please, thank you. I mostly didn't understand what was going on in this hell ride, so how can I rate it a perfect ten? Well, I rate ten when a movie leaves me feeling like there was nothing you could change to make it better. It doesn't mean it's the best movie I've ever seen, it just means that to me, it app…
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