{"id":17015,"date":"2024-11-24T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17015"},"modified":"2024-11-22T16:06:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:06:25","slug":"junk-head-2017-takahide-hori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17015","title":{"rendered":"Junk Head (2017, Takahide Hori)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe another sci-fi stop-motion feature exists with the same plot as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14613\">Mad God<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Phil Tippett must&#8217;ve been so steamed when he saw this.  Both movies&#8217; worlds are packed with lore and backstory, which they mostly don&#8217;t bother us with, as we follow a little guy who descends into lovingly-detailed hellish depths on some doomed mission.  This guy&#8217;s human body has been mangled so he&#8217;s been robocopped into a doll head and roboticized.  Early in his trip he&#8217;s ripped apart by worms and takes a mission-endangering head knock, then is re-roboticized into a science lab servant, and fails (but with great effort) to complete a quest to retrieve some mushrooms.  The little guy kills a monster and rescues one of his mole-man friends &#8211; he does not save humanity or return to the surface, but a sequel is due next year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/junkhead1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/junkhead2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe another sci-fi stop-motion feature exists with the same plot as Mad God &#8211; Phil Tippett must&#8217;ve been so steamed when he saw this. Both movies&#8217; worlds are packed with lore and backstory, which they mostly don&#8217;t bother us with, as we follow a little guy who descends into lovingly-detailed hellish depths on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,3277,1524,1422,2316,2347,590,3349],"class_list":["post-17015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-animation","tag-cyborg","tag-dystopia","tag-mad-scientist","tag-mushrooms","tag-mutation","tag-stop-motion","tag-takahide-hori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17036,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015\/revisions\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}