The simplest description of “The Spine of Night” is “a 1980s heavy metal album cover come to graphic life.” Barbarian shamans, petty despots, noble knight sages, craven knaves, megalomaniacal necromancers, blood, guts, and a parade of naked flesh are all given a spark of spontaneity by hand-rotoscoped animation to emphasize jaw-dropping over the top violence instead of blunting it.
Writer-directors Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King spare little and go the distance on churning the stomach; they’re as far from the uncanny valley as possible, but going the opposite direction has a way of making gory displays more disturbing, not less, a’la “Superjail!
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