Tag: The Spine of Night
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The Spine Of Night Creators Spill On Their Gorgeous, Gory Rotoscoped Epic [Interview]
There are a handful of rotoscoped fantasy classics that every nerd knew in the 1970s and ’80s. Whether it was the rollicking rock and roll fantasy of “Heavy Metal” or the extended epics of the Rankin and Bass “Hobbit” or “Lord of the Rings” movies, the unique animation style implanted itself in our collective subconscious.…
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The Spine Of Night Clip Features Patton Oswalt And Lucy Lawless Squaring Off
Opening tomorrow in theaters and on digital via Shudder and Rlje Films is the animated adult fantasy film “The Spine of Night,” written and directed by Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King. Now Dread Central has unveiled a new clip from the movie featuring the voices of comedian Patton Oswalt (“Young Adult,” “Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.“) and the legendary…
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‘The Spine of Night’ Review: A Gnarly Throwback to the Ralph Bakshi Glory Days of Adult Animation
, Morgan Galen King and Philip Gelatt’s “The Spine of Night” is nothing less than an orgiastic ode to Ralph Bakshi, Gerald Potterton, and the other god-kings of rotoscope animation whose adult cartoons glistened from behind the beaded doorways of America’s video stores like forbidden relics that would melt the faces of anyone who dared…
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‘The Spine of Night’ Trailer: An Ultra-Violent, Rotoscope Animated, Fantasy-Horror Film That Looks Rad as Hell
The Amazon series Undone is the last significant film or television project I can think of that used rotoscoping to push the television medium forward, but an upcoming SXSW film is using that labor-intensive technique to capture a sense of the past. The Spine of Night, a new ultra-violent fantasy horror film that debuts at…