This is a true, old school midnight movie, meant to expand your mind, initiate conversation and perhaps inspire you to stay up late one night working on something creative. Everyone in college should be forced to watch movies like this.

There is a plot of sorts and plenty of grisly stop-motion violence, but Mad God is most impressive as a work of sheer atmosphere, a visual experience that is actually unlike any other.

The best compliment you can pay to Mad God is to say it’s made in the image of its creator.

Mad God is an apocalyptic nightmare of the highest order and boasts some of the most impressive stop-motion animation and world-building of the year.