(2011)
Overall: GOOD
Robert Morgan's first film for a new decade and longest up until that point, Bobby Yeah continues his usual themes of purposely disturbing looking, amorphous creatures interacting without dialog and conveying pure emotion to the viewer. The fleshy, indistinguishable hybrid of beings present this round all have holes for other stringy, tentacle manifestations to spew out of and there are indeed prominent sexual overtones throughout. Impulsiveness seems to continually lead to reproduction of an increasingly bizarre and grotesque nature. Things are never all, well, one thing though in Morgan's work. The pink, angora walls of one location juxtapose against the cold, dark, and blue interior of another and the same goes for every character we meet who often seem adorable and uncomfortably repulsive all at once.
(2013)
Overall: GOOD
As part of Channel 4's Random Acts series, Robert Morgan's Invocation is another combination of live action and stop-motion animation as the 2007 version of The Cat with Hands was. After spending three years working on the proceeding Bobby Yeah, Morgan dished out its follow-up relatively quickly and more carefree. At a mere three-minutes, it is rather on the nose and as close to autobiographical as Morgan's darkly macabre and surreal would allow. A stop-motion animator readies his shoot with a teddy bear when he accidentally pricks his finger and gets blood in the camera. From there, things go in a typically fleshy, birthy, and violent direction. Void of more deeper subtext this time, it is something more on the "lighthearted" side; just some ghastly, horror eye-candy fun really.
(2017)
Overall: GOOD
Commissioned as part of the Celluloid Screams festival in Sheffield, England, Belial's Dream as any Frank Henenlotter fan could guess does in fact feature said creature from Basket Case fame. It is not necessarily a sequel; more a loving little ode to one of the strangest horror comedy franchises there is. As the title would suggest, we get a glimpse into Belial's dreams/nightmares and it goes about as disturbingly as one would expect. He licks his lips at a fleshy, amorphous thing with red satin panties on, (an nod to the first film), sits on his fleshy Aunt's lap, and gets haunted by a fleshy tentacle version of his "normal" brother Duane taunting him for being a freak. Robert Morgan thankfully attains Belial's skin-crawling screams and the overall design work thankfully fits right in with the animator's usual dark, surreal shtick.
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