Mad God

And so he's getting rid of all his stuff.

So he had all the props from Mad God, which is this insane movie.

He spent 30 years making that movie on his own, stop motion.

it kind of like overtook the gallery a little bit, you know, it was really like, there was so much stuff, but it was, I felt like it was a, to me, just to be able to be showing with someone like Phil Tippett, who's like kind of this legend was really cool.

Yeah.

Uh, Phil Tippett's Mad God is something that immediately comes to mind of somebody that just had an idea, had to kind of start it, and then couldn't stop until he saw it through.

And for him, it took two decades.

Mm.

I don't know about that.

But, you know, there's still so many people who always looking for stop-motion movies like Mad God Who like Junk Head.

The stop-motion movie was very disturbing.

They'll watch this movie, for sure.

That's, that's the whole...

Yeah, that's definitely the next step.

Now, is that, funnily enough, um, the... 'Cause I'm in a WhatsApp group with Steve and some other people from the movie, and we were actually talking about Mad God the other day.

It got, it got raised, and, and, like, we need to cater towards that audience.

... and the Kane robot in RoboCop as it happens.

And Tippett has talked about his drawing on influences from Lovecraft, particularly for his, for his film The Mad God, was rumored to be lined up to work with Guillermo del Toro when he was prepping out the Mountains of Madness, which never got made.

But interestingly, he also said years ago that his design for the Kane robot in RoboCop 2 was inspired by the tone and aggression of Howard's source and source rewriting.

He wanted it to p- appear like a big, top-heavy, muscular barbarian.

Yeah.

He's just like, "Duh," you know? [laughs]

And what, what I'm envisaging when I'm, when I'm reading this is I'm thinking, "Right, if this is made into an early '70s Land That Time Forgot/Warlords of Atlantis film-

Mm

Like it doesn't like there's different ways to solve these, you know, there's different solutions to each thing.

Now, I just wanted to follow up on what you said, because we have always run into this issue when it comes to procedural cop shows, that they always end with like, ah, thank God we caught those guys.

And now that it's in the hands of the American justice system, everything's going to be okay.

And we always have to contend with the fact that one of our favorite genres happens to end with like, oh, and the good guys just handed it off to the cops and everything went okay.

It kind of followed along.

It was, I think... interesting to have another type of mystery that you know kind of the solution at the beginning, but not 100% of it.

I feel like I wasn't that surprised by the face thing until I was like, oh, okay, that makes sense kind of thing rather than like, oh my God, she wants the head for facial recognition or

yeah

It's what makes a lot of people not like it, but it is what... draws me in the most.

That cut from this first arc with Tess and Keith, that cut to Justin Long is like, honest to God, one of the best cuts in film history.

It's so funny.

But then it also ushers in this new story that thematically brings something different to the table.

your head.

So

you're already like, oh, my God.

And then she goes down, and there's another door that leads down.

And when he saw the stop-motion puppet, and I built this thing when I was like 17 or something.

Oh, God, I got 100 questions, but keep going.

This is at the end of the show, right at the very, you know, like last two weeks of ILM's work.

Can you make, you know, 10 space aliens and shoot the chess set scene? And so John and I just like put these things together.

been

a terrifying Oh

God, Jurassic park was like a total meltdown because as we went into it, initially we were going to do it with, um, stop motion models hooked up to the go motion, uh, characters.

And I, you know, spent a lot of time working out and, you know, getting a bunch of rigs built and for Jurassic park.

The legendary Phil Tippett.

Everyone go and see Mad God, what film that is.

Oh, that's some gloopy film, that.

It's great, but fucking hell, it's disturbing.

Even when it went full digital, he kind of still went in and handled movement and they used the stop-motion for reference and stuff.

He directed a Shudder original probably about five or six years ago now called Mad God.

That was a full stop motion horror film.

Very, very, very incredible.