10 Horror Movies You MUST Watch On The Big Screen

7. Mad God (2021)

Mad God 2022
Shudder

Any horror fan worth their salt would give an arm, two legs, and their firstborn to catch Phil Tippett's stop motion masterpiece Mad God on the big screen, sinking into the gore while being able to appreciate every minute detail of the tireless labour of love.

The film's journey south takes an unnamed and mute assassin through hellscape after hellscape, finding his way to the bloody heart of a ghastly, war-torn world, where he seeks to deposit a bomb and bring it all crumbling down. And it took Tippett and a large team of volunteers some 30 years to make.

Mad God is obscene in the scale and grim details of its multitudinous horrors, never settling for sanitary when there is the opportunity to wring some blood and misery out of a minor feature. Everything that can have texture does, every surface awash with bolts and grates, every creature a mass of flesh, hair, and bloodshot everything - no detail spared the Tippett treatment - but unless you're packing a 90-inch OLED at home, much of this meticulous craft will be sadly lost to the murky corners and crevices of your screen.

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