Saw Mad God (2021), a stop-motion film created by Phil Tippett, the special effects guy behind RoboCop and Tremors and Starship Troopers. His signature ghastliness is on display, but alas with only visuals to share and no story, the film kind of drags incomprehensibly.
The plot is this more or less: we follow some guy exploring a grisly hell-scape populated by spindly dust bunnies. The guy is carrying a suitcase to some place and seems to be well-prepared. It's sort of hard to follow this story however. At one point the guy is captured. We then see a whole bunch of people in full-body casts in a hospital. We zoom in on one of them. Is that the first guy? Does this hospital belong to the guys who captured him or has he been rescued now? It doesn't matter and you will not know.
There's plenty of nice scenery however. There's some plague doctor character who floats along eerily in a way that makes you wonder if this really is stop-motion or not. A lot of the imagery is grim, of course, evoking the holocaust, medical horrors, and strange religious rites. Alas, without some more obvious story for my brain to hang on to, I started falling asleep. Interestingly, the film made somewhat more sense when I was half-awake. Highly recommend!
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