It shows instead of tells, a technique that will definitely turn some people off. There’s hardly any dialogue in Angel’s Egg. Angel’s Egg is a very heady and progressive feature from 1985. Blending science fiction with fantasy is a thing that the Japanese have been doing for a long time.
Angel’s Egg is one film in a whole genre featuring dark, almost completely black landscapes. Japan is well known for their weird and wonderful cartoons known as anime. The first Japanese film on this list but certainly not the last. It’s a far out and dark vision, one that was probably more relatable after the atomic scare in the 60s.
It’s a bit heavy handed with all the nuclear rhetoric. They fight on the scorched Earth, one on a mission for power the other a mission for peace. It’s about two brothers, Avatar and Blackwolf. Just like at the arcade, the audience is given a very clear target. Wizards is the classic battle between good and evil. This is not the only film in this list that uses nuclear holocaust as a main player. Propaganda fuels a new wave of war and hate in a place that is reminiscent of Hitler’s Germany. It’s set in a futuristic, medieval Earth that has spawned all kinds of new and weird species. This is Ralph Bakshi’s first fantasy, dabbling before in animated films like Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic.
This is like a late 70s arcade game in movie form. A melancholy love letter to the human race. The Cosmic Eye is a more a message than it is a film. Preaching a message of peace using colorful and mind expanding animation techniques. The Cosmic Eye is a film that came after John’s death and an extremely personal one at that. When John passed, Faith continued on her own, working with Storyboard Studios, the company they founded together. The Hubley duo, consisting of John and Faith were an animating powerhouse in the 1960s and 70s. The terrain changes, mountains get chop-punched in half iron is made soft like clay. Lots and lots of sexual undertone, displays of masculinity and femininity, beard growing and shaving. Nearly seizure inducing levels of movement and warping everything so fluidly moving from one scene to the next. It is a breathtaking, psychedelic masterpiece. What is far from standard is the animation and sound design in this picture.
Son of the White Mare (that’s what the name translates to literally) goes on a quest seeking to rip trees out of the ground and free three princesses who have been kept in the underworld. This is a beautiful picture from Marcell Jankovics and Pannónia Filmmstúdió in Hungary.
Son of the White Mare (1981, Marcell Jankovics)Īn absolutely unbelievable, grandiose idea that offers no explanation or justification.
The freedom that animation allows, gave the animators and directors working on this film the ability to create a hyper-stylized place full of brilliant blues, reds, and yellows.Ģ. This all takes in what looks like a Salvador Dali painting. The giant blue creatures on this planet (named Draags) keep the human beings (known as Oms) as pets. Fantastic Planet is a story about the human race co-existing with giant blue humanoid creatures on another planet although, co-existing implies a sort of symbiotic relationship. All of the choices here have been picked to watch while under the influence of strong self-assessment.Ī simple way to confuse your brain right off the bat is to subvert the role of humans. Most of the choices here are geared towards an adult audience. It’s a list of animated films that are strange, eclectic, disturbing, or just plain bizarre. This list is collection of those decisions. Like running off a cliff at high speeds, falling down into a vat of acid that eats your flesh and melts your brain. It’s only natural that a group of people would take that freedom and run with it. The animation medium provides a level of creativity and freedom not seen in many other film genres. But many times these people are driven by curious forces. The people that get into making animation are obviously driven by the desire to draw. While there’s an obvious connection between children and brightly colored cartoons, adults by nature want to make things for themselves. There is an odd perception among the general populace that animated movies are made for children.