Phil Mulloy

Directing

Phil Mulloy

Born — Died

1948-08-29 — 2025-07-10

Place of birth

Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Phil Mulloy (29 August 1948 – 10 July 2025) is a British animator of Irish ancestry. He was born in Wallasey, Merseyside and studied both painting and filmmaking. Mulloy worked as a screenwriter and director of live-action films until the late 1980s before becoming an animator. His animations have been described as "satirical grotesque" and often portray the dark side of human nature and contemporary social, political, and religious values in a humorous and at times, shocking way. His visual style is distinctive in its use of primitive, often skeletal figures and minimalist backgrounds. Mulloy has made over 30 animated films many of which are in themed groupings based on Hollywood genres. Mu…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Cowboys: Outrage! poster
4.3

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

Cowboys: Outrage!

1991

Cowboys: Murder! poster
5.5

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

Cowboys: Murder!

1991

No artwork available
NR

Surreal animated short.

Flik Flak

2000

Intolerance III: The Final Solution poster
7.3

Two thousand years into the future, the battlefleet from Earth is still searching for the Planet Zog. Those on board are irreconcilably divided between those that believe the Planet Zog exists, and those that don't. Caught between these warring factions Ade and Eva Hokum are determined to find happiness with each other. Will the Planet Zog be a paradise for them?

Intolerance III: The Final Solution

2007

Intolerance III: The Final Solution poster
7.3

Two thousand years into the future, the battlefleet from Earth is still searching for the Planet Zog. Those on board are irreconcilably divided between those that believe the Planet Zog exists, and those that don't. Caught between these warring factions Ade and Eva Hokum are determined to find happiness with each other. Will the Planet Zog be a paradise for them?

Intolerance III: The Final Solution

2007

Intolerance poster
6.2

The film begins with an Earth space craft stumbling upon a movie floating in the vast nothingness. The film turns out to be from planet Zog and when people see it, they are shocked and angered by the Zogs (or is it 'Zogians' or 'Zogites'?). It seems that they have their genitals where our heads are and vice-versa. To make things really weird, they eat and drink with their genitals and defecate with their faces.

Intolerance

2000

Cowboys: "That's Nothin'" poster
6.4

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

Cowboys: "That's Nothin'"

1991

Cowboys: Slim Pickin's poster
4.9

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

Cowboys: Slim Pickin's

1991

Greats Moments in Film poster
6.0

Animated short film by Phil Mulloy.

Greats Moments in Film

1995

Greats Moments in Film poster
6.0

Animated short film by Phil Mulloy.

Greats Moments in Film

1995

Greats Moments in Film poster
6.0

Animated short film by Phil Mulloy.

Greats Moments in Film

1995

Possession poster
7.0

A tale about Jack who becomes possessed.

Possession

1991

Seasons Greetings poster
NR

This visual postcard wishes its viewers a Happy Christmas and other good wishes one sends on a joyous occasion such as the holidays. However, this video postcard starts out with an idyllic winter scene soon transgresses into a bizarre series of appearances of a fish spitting out words, an elephant who appears to be half made out of jelly playing with a ball. All these add to the strange atmosphere of Mulloy’s Christmas card. Mulloy was inspired by the financial crisis to depict a bleak winter.

Seasons Greetings

1999

No artwork available
5.8

A child makes a grotesque and primitive painting, only for it to be criticized by their father. What happens after is a tale of deception, tragedy, war, death, and destruction from those who encounter the affected painting and its supposedly limitless power.

The Chain

1997

No artwork available
NR

The second instalment.

Flik Flak 2

2000

Tinfish poster
7.0

A Film by Phil Mulloy

Tinfish

1990

Endgame poster
5.0

After a tough week at the office, Richard and George like to play war games over the weekend to relax. The dispassionate atmosphere and minimalistic style with which the growing brutality is handled slowly wipes the smile from your face, before making sure that it doesn’t return.

Endgame

2015

Endgame poster
5.0

After a tough week at the office, Richard and George like to play war games over the weekend to relax. The dispassionate atmosphere and minimalistic style with which the growing brutality is handled slowly wipes the smile from your face, before making sure that it doesn’t return.

Endgame

2015

The Christies poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Christies

2006

Intolerance II: The Invasion poster
6.7

Once upon a time there was a war between earth and the planet Zog. The two vast space fleets took off to do battle but, at the point of contact in deep space, the earth crews were smelling their girlfriend's underpants while the Zog's were distracted watching porn # and so they passed one another. 30 years later the Zog have invaded earth unnoticed. One man, Dwight Hokum, is at an all-night wine tasting when he sees the Zog removing their heads. He sets out to warn the world and kill those he sees who are Zogs # however the world brands him a killer and doesn't believe him. When Dwight finds that even his President is a Zog he has no option but to strike out on his own to save the world.

Intolerance II: The Invasion

2001

Intolerance II: The Invasion poster
6.7

Once upon a time there was a war between earth and the planet Zog. The two vast space fleets took off to do battle but, at the point of contact in deep space, the earth crews were smelling their girlfriend's underpants while the Zog's were distracted watching porn # and so they passed one another. 30 years later the Zog have invaded earth unnoticed. One man, Dwight Hokum, is at an all-night wine tasting when he sees the Zog removing their heads. He sets out to warn the world and kill those he sees who are Zogs # however the world brands him a killer and doesn't believe him. When Dwight finds that even his President is a Zog he has no option but to strike out on his own to save the world.

Intolerance II: The Invasion

2001

Mondo Mulloy poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mondo Mulloy

2004

Cowboys: The Conformist poster
5.0

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

Cowboys: The Conformist

1991

Forwards Backwards poster
NR

If only Terry and Mister Christie could communicate better.

Forwards Backwards

2013

No artwork available
NR

Will Mr Christie allow Terry to join the Mayan End of the World Society?

The Banker

2012

Cowboys: High Noon poster
4.9

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

Cowboys: High Noon

1991

No artwork available
NR

A reconstruction of the life of Robert Noonan, author of "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists", covering the nine years he spent in Hastings while he wrote the book, based on the fragments known of his life, his writing and the political events of the time. It shows the conditions suffered by the working class, and shows how the book grew out of a commitment to socialism which the prevailing conditions of unemployment and depression prevented him from putting into practice, particularly in his attempts to encourage his colleagues to join a union.

Give Us This Day

1982

No artwork available
NR

A reconstruction of the life of Robert Noonan, author of "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists", covering the nine years he spent in Hastings while he wrote the book, based on the fragments known of his life, his writing and the political events of the time. It shows the conditions suffered by the working class, and shows how the book grew out of a commitment to socialism which the prevailing conditions of unemployment and depression prevented him from putting into practice, particularly in his attempts to encourage his colleagues to join a union.

Give Us This Day

1982

Dogs Can't Talk poster
NR

Phil Mulloy uses his comedic timing and simply animation style to tell the tale of the Christie family's talking dog.

Dogs Can't Talk

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Return

1989

Trump's Pitch poster
NR

Donald Trump want to win that award a week.

Trump's Pitch

2019

No artwork available
NR

Little Terry starts smoking to boost his career.

The Christies: Gary Challenger

2005

No artwork available
NR

A History & The City

A History & The City

1977

No artwork available
NR

A History & The City

A History & The City

1977

The Sound of Music poster
7.8

A part-time musician gets off his day job as a window washer for a disturbing apartment complex to a gig for a charity event. The rich arrive, and the food runs low. Luckily, there are the homeless and other non-economic contributors around to fit the bill.

The Sound of Music

1992

Little Terry's Dream poster
NR

Directed by Phil Mulloy.

Little Terry's Dream

2013

The Pain and the Pity poster
NR

The third – and presumably final – instalment in the mercurial ‘Christies’ animated features by the equally mercurial bad boy of British animation, Phil Mulloy. Mister Christie and the others return for one last time to try and work out exactly who they are. A serial killer is loose deep under the streets of London. Raw, roughly hewn images knitted together with a unique system of narrative structuring, bashed into existence using the tools and resources of our age and plastered onto the big screen with the customary ‘take it or leave it’ Mulloy energy.

The Pain and the Pity

2013

No artwork available
NR

On the outskirts of London, a family of three set off into the countryside, The child is embarking on a journey of such horror that it will change his life forever.

Once Upon a Time on Earth

2024

No artwork available
NR

Mr Christie's mind begins to wander while he is having sex.

The Christies: Mr Christie's Sex Manual

2005

No artwork available
5.9

An animated short film by Phil Mulloy.

The History of the World Episode 10: The Discovery of Language

1994