Review of Mad God (2021) by Pypes — 25 Jul 2022

An auteur's passion project, pointedly grotesque and realized via an odd medium? Yes please.

Or rather not. This should have been a solid 10 from me but the film fails to deliver. The lack of readily apparent narrative (the film contains no dialog) leaves this a series of vignettes that burn through all the best ideas in the first 30 minutes, then proceeds to overstay its welcome for another hour. Sound design was noticeably poor IMHO, and maybe I've been desensitized but non of the visuals were as grotesque or shocking as had been billed.

Watch it for the "experience", but if you find your eyelids growing heavy after 40 minutes or so feel free to switch it off, you're not missing anything.