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Junk Head

Junk Head

Introduction

In the distant future, humanity is hurtling down a path of ruin. Global environmental destruction caused by chemical contamination, radioactive fallout, and UV rays coming through the patchy ozone layer has lead to deterioration of the human genome. (Source: Official Website)

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Audience ratings

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Audience reviews

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Ken-ji

Junk Head is an indie stop-motion animated film created by Yamiken studio, a team comprised of only the director Takahide Hori and animation director Atsuko Miyake. The film follows a rather simple story of a man who's consciousness is transferred into the body of a robot and is sent underground on a mission to locate a mutated creature from that was detected as an anomaly with a reproductive organ. The film is set in an intricately detailed subterranean industrial complex with an abundance of interesting sci-fi and horror imagery. The art design across the board is inventive and extremely memorable, fans of stuff like Silent Hill will likely find stuff right up their alley with these creature designs. There are a number of sequences showcasing the animalistic environment with characters…

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delta5

Junk Head is an extraordinary achievement of stop-motion animation. Its influences range from art cinema to B-grade horror films and post-apocalyptic video games, but there's nothing quite like it out there. Created almost entirely by one man, Takahide Hori, Junk Head is a journey through a nightmarish underground landscape of ruins, caverns, and decaying industrial infrastructure inhabited by grotesque sentient humanoids and even more twisted and repulsive predators who lurk in the dark. The story is fairly simple, involving the extremely perilous adventures of a future "human" who volunteers for a dangerous mission into the unknown, His travels deep underneath the Earth's surface reveal a phantasmagoric, meticulously detailed underworld with its own social structure, belief system, and…

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