The kitschy animated fantasy “The Spine of Night” often looks like an empty, overdetermined throwback to the formative juvenilia of Frank Frazetta’s sword-and-sorcery paintings and/or Ralph Bakshi’s stoner-friendly cartoons. In fact, you might recognize the style and mood of “The Spine of Night” if you’ve already seen “Fire and Ice,” the 1983 Bakshi/Frazetta joint that dished out even more hormonal loin-cloth fantasy stuff than most early Millennials knew what to do with.The makers of “The Spine of Night” take both that earlier movie’s romantic/macabre vibe and its hyper-real rotoscoping animation style, and apply them to a series of cosmic, convoluted stories about the various seekers (and recipients) of a small blue flower that contains the universe’s secrets, among other things. These gloomy, disjointed tales of scantily clad warriors and physically grotesque tyrants speak once again to power’s corrupting influence and hope’s fleeting solace.The Spine of Night 2021 Full Movie Download
“The Spine of Night” can therefore be read as a contemporary balm for nostalgic movie misfits. In the movie’s press notes, co-writer/co-director Philip Gelatt notes that “the world feels increasingly like a nightmare,” then admiringly paraphrases an unidentified “someone,” who described “Conan the Barbarian” (1982) as “’Star Wars’ for crazy people.” (Co-writer/director Morgan Galen King also name-checks Bakshi and “Fire and Ice” as creative influences.) Unfortunately, not even scads of gore and full frontal nudity (both sexes!), nor a voice cast of fan favorites, like Lucy Lawless and Patton Oswalt, can inject “The Spine of Night” with enough crazy to jumpstart its tired counter-cultural posturing.The first story introduces viewers to the magical blue flowers of Bastal, the enchanted swamp home of ferocious pinup queen Tzod (Lawless). Bastal doesn’t last very long in “The Spine of Night” since Tzod defies petulant despot Lord Pyrantin (Oswalt), who burns down Tzod’s swamp. She then seeks out more blue flowers, which can be used to tap into a mystical Force-like power, to restore some balance to a cyclically bent universe. Her efforts are contrasted and juxtaposed with the selfless and/or self-serving actions of other heroes and villains, like Mongrel (Joe Manganiello), an inevitably corrupted barbarian leader and necromancer, and Phae-Agura (Betty Gabriel), an unusually sensitive librarian-cum-warrior.
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