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Is there a better choice to play a badass swamp queen who is impervious to frostbite than Lucy Lawless? I don’t think so. Writer/directors Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King have assembled a roster of voice talent that helps bring the characters to life. Viscera are just waiting to pop out of the body’s private cavities like trick snakes in a can of faux potato chips.
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Skin parts and limbs break off with the ease of a tortilla chip placed under the pressure of a slightly viscous dip. The theme of humanity’s fragility is underscored in the movie’s violence. The art style pays homage to the otherworldly and provocative covers of vintage pulp fantasy/horror novels, but with a welcome understanding that not all women are proportioned like Barbie dolls, and with more diversity in the race/ethnicity of its characters. , 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. Like Lovecraft’s stories, the Spine of the Night has a slow, dreamy pace. With the knowledge of the void comes magic power.Īnd humanity’s quest for this power has caused no end of trouble. But a seed got away from him and floated to the fertile earth of the swamp. He’s guarding a blue flower that makes folks trip balls and contemplate the cosmic void. She’s come to swap tales with a Guardian sworn to protect humanity from confronting its own vulnerability in the face of a vast and indifferent universe. The film is mostly the backstory of a formidable, almost-naked, swamp queen who has trekked up the face of a mountain. Lovecraft story of humanity’s cosmic insignificance in the visual style of a higher-budget He-Man cartoon. The Spine of the Night is a rotoscope-animated feature that presents a pseudo-H.