Synopsis
The Spine of Night (2021) is a blood-soaked hand-drawn epic you can watch online on iFILM — adult animation built frame by frame with rotoscoping. When ancient dark magic slips into the wrong grip, centuries of suffering pour over the world. A handful of heroes from scattered eras set out to end it.
A swamp witch, scholars, warriors and kings are separated by time but bound by one aim: tear the sorcerous power away from the man who turned it into a weapon. Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King directed, with voices from Richard E. Grant, Lucy Lawless, Patton Oswalt, Betty Gabriel and Joe Manganiello. The linework is deliberately rough, every frame drenched in crimson.
It's a straight tribute to Ralph Bakshi's brutal 1970s fantasy: dismemberment, nudity and grim mythology in place of any polished cartoon sheen. Not a film for everyone, but fans of underground animation and dark fantasy get exactly what they came for. Stream The Spine of Night (2021) online on iFILM.
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