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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2019 17:11:28 GMT
Often done with the best tools and techniques that were to be had at the time... and still pretty amazing. Essays, comments and images, as always, welcomed and appreciated.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2019 17:16:12 GMT
Bruce was not the most co-operative of Man-Mad Beasties but he scared more than a summer's worth of movie goers !  |
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 8, 2019 17:32:05 GMT
Still one of my favorites and most iconic. Talos by Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts. Guess he qualifies as a "Beastie."  Another favorite is the skeleton in 7th Voyage of Sinbad.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2019 17:59:17 GMT
Sure does ….plenty of room for all the Harryhausen relatives ...had them in mind in the OP.  |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 8, 2019 18:26:54 GMT
 Ray Harryhausen with a few friends from Clash of the Titans 1981, Calibos, Dioskilos and Medusa.
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 8, 2019 18:46:08 GMT
Not all man-made beasties struck terror into our hearts. God bless Roger Corman. IT CONQUERED THE WORLD  ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS  THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH  |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 8, 2019 21:06:35 GMT
Still one of my favorites and most iconic. Talos by Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts. Guess he qualifies as a "Beastie." Another favorite is the skeleton in 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Talos was one of the greats. Loved the way his neck creaked when he came to life. When I was younger we took a family trip to Gettysburg. My brother was terrified of the equestrian statues, thinking they were going to come to life. Every time we went by one, I would go "creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeak" in his ear.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 8, 2019 21:54:27 GMT
A couple of strange beasties from Japan... Uchūjin Tokyo ni arawaru aka Spacemen Appear in Tokyo, Warning from Space (1956) with starfish like aliens !  Matango (1963) is about a group of castaways on an island who are unwittingly altered by a local species of mutagenic mushrooms...  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2019 22:11:08 GMT
 some were more impressive than others but can they brag about having trivia like this ? The actual Blob, a mixture of red dye and silicone, has never dried out and is still kept in the original five-gallon pail in which it was shipped to the production company in 1958 from Union Carbide. It was put on display over the years as a part of the annual Blobfest, held over a three-day period each summer in Phoenixville, PA, which provided a number of the shooting locales for the film. In addition to displaying the Blob and miniatures used in the shooting, the event features a reenactment of the famous scene in which panicked theatergoers rush to exit the town's still-functioning Colonial Theater, as well as several showings of the film. According to producer Jack H. Harris, they added dye to the Blob to make it increasingly redder after it had consumed successive victims. The Blob was created with a modified weather balloon in the early shots, and in the later shots with colored silicone gel. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 8, 2019 23:11:45 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2019 23:40:48 GMT
and 1933 state of the art Dinosaurs  [  These two are rehearsing their big scene  |
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 9, 2019 15:00:00 GMT
These guys used to scare me quite a bit when I was a kid... The Green Slime  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 9, 2019 16:43:16 GMT
 Two Illusion Shatterers |
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Post by Catman on Apr 10, 2019 1:05:22 GMT
Even better, Godzilla's date with Emiko:  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 10, 2019 1:13:31 GMT
 Catman hope you didn't peek at the spoilers 
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 10, 2019 17:06:37 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 12, 2019 14:25:25 GMT
Mighty Joe Young (1949)"A young woman who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood years later seeking her fortune in order to save her family's ranch." The Poster  
This was the first feature film to which Ray Harryhausen contributed stop-motion animation effects. Though Willis H. O'Brien gets top special-effects billing, Ray Harryhausen actually did 85%-90% of the stop-motion animation for this film, although the animation is based on O'Brien's designs and storyboards.
 
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