Belial's Dream (2017) Poster

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7/10
Another nifty little slice of stop motion bizarreness from Robert Morgan! Warning: Spoilers
In every one of the highly distinctive fleshy animations of Robert Morgan that I've seen, I've detected a certain inspiration to Belial the crawling twisted abomination of Frank Hennenlotter's classic Basket Case, and it was very cool to see him finally put something together that directly references the movie with this. It sees the monstrous disembodied Siamese twin having a very strange dream/nightmare that displays his vile sexual desires as well as his continuing rage and trauma at his forced surgical separation as well as what he can't have, and it ends with what must be some kind of premonition of his fatal fall to the ground...or so we thought! It's a pretty good bit of animation, this incarnation of Belial has the same creepy face that Morgan always seems to stick with in his demented works of art, and it has a couple of impressive mad fleshy sight gags.. I've seen better by Robert Morgan though, I mean this is good but it doesn't have the sick mind-blowing flair that Bobby Yeah had. It's definitely fun to see a little more of the Belial monster in some form of other though. Most recommended if you enjoy the monster or get a kick out of the terrifically insane world of a very talented and cool animator! x
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8/10
Beautifully grotesque
Rectangular_businessman30 October 2021
While I have never seen "Basket Case", this nightmarish short certainly has increased my interest in that movie.

All the animations done by Robert Morgan have a certain visceral quality on them, and this isn't the exception. I think it serves as a very good example of weird, surreal horror done well.
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3/10
Creepy crap
mrdonleone1 November 2019
Belials Dream is about perversion of the youngest mind. Everything has a sexual connotation. Freud would have a field day. I unfortunately did not and neither would you. Avoid this crap!!
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