Kylgor in the Grisly Abyss is a 2026 Canadian stop-motion/puppet horror film written and directed by Mason Newton DeRushie. Working mostly as a special effects assistant, Mason has provided practical special effects work on several horror films, including Monster Brawl (2011), Septic Man (2013), and What Keeps You Alive (2018), to name a few. Outside

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Junk Head is a 2017 Japanese stop-motion animation film written and directed by Takahide Hori. The film is based on Hori’s first short film, Junk Head 1 (2013), a project that took four years to create and whose narrative was expanded into a feature-length production over a further three years. Mankind can no longer reproduce

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A bizarre blend of Phil Tippett’s Mad God and Dario Argento’s Suspiria, Robert Morgan’s feature debut Stopmotion (2023) is an indie horror film that weaponizes the maddening process of stop motion animation to aim at its audience’s nerve endings, with fabulously gnarly results. If Phil Tippett’s epic 2021 passion project uses stop-motion animation to look outward

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Mad God Film Review

There aren’t many people who can say they have taken thirty years to complete a project. At the current rate, George R.R. Martin might be able to when he finally finishes the Winds of Winter, but in the entertainment, industry time is usually of the essence. Cinematic trends will come and go and so will

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