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You can watch Cool World (1992) for free on Hoopla, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.

This hallucinatory fever dream blurs the line between hand-drawn noir and live-action chaos through its jarring, psychedelic aesthetic. It remains a bizarre relic of the nineties that prioritizes pure visual weirdness over traditional logic.

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