Tag Archives: Ray Harryhausen
10 Hammer Favorites
Reviewing The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) has me thinking about my favorite Hammer films, horror or otherwise. What follows is a list of the Hammer films I return to the most often and with the greatest pleasure. It’s not … Continue reading
Posted in Marathon
Tagged 50's, 60's, 70's, Andrew Keir, Charles Gray, Christopher Lee, Collinson Twins, dinosaurs, Dracula, Fantasy, Frankenstein, Hammer, horror, Linda Hayden, Oliver Reed, Peter Cushing, prehistoric, Quatermass, Raquel Welch, Ray Harryhausen, Satanism, Science Fiction, Susan Denberg, The Devil, Vampire, Werewolf
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Blasted out of the Arctic ice with atomic testing is a prehistoric creature called the Rhedosaurus, scaly, spiny, and massive jawed, stomping on four legs, and sending a scientist toppling over a ridge. Later that man, Thomas Nesbitt (Paul Hubschmid, … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Fantastique
Tagged 50's, Cecil Kellaway, Coney Island, dinosaurs, Fantasy, Kenneth Tobey, Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Science Fiction, Stop Motion
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Double Feature: The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)/The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Cowboys vs. dinosaurs! The idea was kicking around in stop-motion animator Willis O’Brien’s head for a while in the years following his seminal work on The Lost World (1925) and King Kong (1933). It was an appealing and original notion to … Continue reading
Posted in Double Feature, Theater Fantastique, Theater Leone
Tagged cowboys, dinosaurs, Fantasy, Guy Madison, James Franciscus, prehistoric, Ray Harryhausen, Stop Motion, Western, Willis O'Brien
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