imagine if all the special effects of Jurassic Park were created by one guy in a rented out store front in Southern California...Ray Harryhausen will always be the greatest!
If you ever want an idea of what it might look like, check out the Making Of Jurassic Park featuring James Earl Jones as Host, they show Phil Tippit's stop motion tests. That's if you haven't seen it already of course😉
Yup, I saw the raptors in the kitchen sequence. I love me some stop motion dinosaur antics...Even crappy stop motion like "Beast From Hollow Mountain"@@MadDragon-lb7qg
I'm not sure why but as a young kid in the early 70's I loved watching this, the Japanese horror movies and other monster movies from the 1950's on tv. Jason and the Argonauts (1963) is my favorite. I love the fight with the skeletons after Jack Gwillim distributes the teeth. Just looking up some details... whoa Nancy Kovac AND her husband Zubin Mehta are still alive.
My favorite Harryhausen creations are the Cyclops in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, the Kraken in Clash of The Titans, the statue of Kali in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (great movie) and the giant prehistoric bird in Mysterious Island.
So many wonderful memories of sitting on the floor as a kid and watching these movies on a Saturday afternoon! Just last night, I sat back and watched "It! The Terror From Beyond Space".
Schneer, Harryhausen and Yates got the band back together the following year for Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers where they proceeded to destroy landmarks of a more east coast persuasion. I have no idea why George Worthing Yates hated monuments so much... It's neither the first nor the best of the 50s "creature features", but it sure is a hoot.
I enjoy watching this, as I do with almost all '50s creature features. The octopus moves are great. I watched it again recently. I noticed one thing that is different from most such films. The usual routine with love triangles is the one she probably wouldn't pick anyway gets eaten by the monster so she doesn't have to hurt the man's feelings and she and the man live happily ever after. In this one the woman decides neither of them. Seems a rather independent woman for 1955. Have you seen "The Flying Saucer" (1964) aka "Il disco volante"? Congratulations on your 10,000!
That old stop motion was more fun to me BECAUSE it didn't totally look real. It gave everything a sort of "dreamlike" or "other dimensional" quality, and now, everyone is racing to make their creatures as visually realistic as possible. I'm not saying we should abandon CGI at all, I'm saying that we need to allow our creatures and aliens and monsters not ALWAYS have to look photorealistic to the eye: We forgot how to make it weird, and allow it look like it doesn't belong in our world. The effects in John Carpenter's THE THING didn't necessarily look "real", but dammit they were INCREDIBLE, they looked like something you could reach out and touch and they also looked like manifestations that had NO business sharing our reality. Same with Harryhousen's works.
It scared the bejeezus out of 9-year-old me when it came on TV in the early 60’s, up there with The Tingler 😳! Of course these movies gave me nightmares and were thus forbidden by my dad, which only made them all the more more irresistible 😜 to me.
After some cursory research, I realize the character I was thinking of was played by an actor named Eddie Fisher! (NOT that Eddie Fisher!) The only question that remains is HOW was I able to confuse HIM with Clint Eastwood!
Ah yes! The Giant Claw and From Hell it came! As a kid I remember watching those with my brothers. A couple that are so bad that its good! Im with you, Black Lagoon and probably THEM are my two favorites. Great review again.
Finally catching up to your channel. I’ve wanted a channel like this. I hope you get to reviewing the original Ghostbusters, Back to the Future and Conan the Barbarian.
I liked this movie because it had a realistic monster. The giant octopus is real though maybe not that large Also the creature was hunting human's on ships because radiation from nuclear subs caused it's food source, fish, to flee so the thing was starving.
Although this is an interesting movie, I much prefer the next movie that they all made: Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers. Maybe it only because of all the flying saucers rather than the octopus.
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imagine if all the special effects of Jurassic Park were created by one guy in a rented out store front in Southern California...Ray Harryhausen will always be the greatest!
If you ever want an idea of what it might look like, check out the Making Of Jurassic Park featuring James Earl Jones as Host, they show Phil Tippit's stop motion tests. That's if you haven't seen it already of course😉
Yup, I saw the raptors in the kitchen sequence. I love me some stop motion dinosaur antics...Even crappy stop motion like "Beast From Hollow Mountain"@@MadDragon-lb7qg
I was just thinking about that, and how audiences were probably just as amazed as we were at Jaws, the original Star Wars, and Jurassic Park.
I'm not sure why but as a young kid in the early 70's I loved watching this, the Japanese horror movies and other monster movies from the 1950's on tv. Jason and the Argonauts (1963) is my favorite. I love the fight with the skeletons after Jack Gwillim distributes the teeth. Just looking up some details... whoa Nancy Kovac AND her husband Zubin Mehta are still alive.
HOLY COW!! Congrats on your first 10K, Eric!! One Hundred Billion, here we come!!
My favorite Harryhausen creations are the Cyclops in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, the Kraken in Clash of The Titans, the statue of Kali in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (great movie) and the giant prehistoric bird in Mysterious Island.
So many wonderful memories of sitting on the floor as a kid and watching these movies on a Saturday afternoon! Just last night, I sat back and watched "It! The Terror From Beyond Space".
I’ve been hankering to talk about that movie!
Yes, PLEASE! Such a riot of a movie! @@TheUnapologeticGeek
Schneer, Harryhausen and Yates got the band back together the following year for Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers
where they proceeded to destroy landmarks of a more east coast persuasion.
I have no idea why George Worthing Yates hated monuments so much...
It's neither the first nor the best of the 50s "creature features", but it sure is a hoot.
I enjoy watching this, as I do with almost all '50s creature features. The octopus moves are great. I watched it again recently. I noticed one thing that is different from most such films. The usual routine with love triangles is the one she probably wouldn't pick anyway gets eaten by the monster so she doesn't have to hurt the man's feelings and she and the man live happily ever after. In this one the woman decides neither of them. Seems a rather independent woman for 1955. Have you seen "The Flying Saucer" (1964) aka "Il disco volante"? Congratulations on your 10,000!
I have not seen it. Adding it to my (increasingly interminable) list!
Kenneth Tobey would also have a role as the coughing, wheezing gas station attendant in "Gremlins".
He's also in Innerspace!
That old stop motion was more fun to me BECAUSE it didn't totally look real. It gave everything a sort of "dreamlike" or "other dimensional" quality, and now, everyone is racing to make their creatures as visually realistic as possible. I'm not saying we should abandon CGI at all, I'm saying that we need to allow our creatures and aliens and monsters not ALWAYS have to look photorealistic to the eye: We forgot how to make it weird, and allow it look like it doesn't belong in our world. The effects in John Carpenter's THE THING didn't necessarily look "real", but dammit they were INCREDIBLE, they looked like something you could reach out and touch and they also looked like manifestations that had NO business sharing our reality. Same with Harryhousen's works.
It scared the bejeezus out of 9-year-old me when it came on TV in the early 60’s, up there with The Tingler 😳! Of course these movies gave me nightmares and were thus forbidden by my dad, which only made them all the more more irresistible 😜 to me.
Solaris? that's gonna be interesting, do you plan to cover Stalker as well?
At some point, yes, absolutely!
@@TheUnapologeticGeekdont watch solarbabies 😅
Eric…that ending…😂😂😂
After some cursory research, I realize the character I was thinking of was played by an actor named Eddie Fisher! (NOT that Eddie Fisher!) The only question that remains is HOW was I able to confuse HIM with Clint Eastwood!
Ah yes! The Giant Claw and From Hell it came! As a kid I remember watching those with my brothers. A couple that are so bad that its good!
Im with you, Black Lagoon and probably THEM are my two favorites.
Great review again.
Finally catching up to your channel. I’ve wanted a channel like this. I hope you get to reviewing the original Ghostbusters, Back to the Future and Conan the Barbarian.
I want to! Just a matter of time. 😎
Tentacles are hard to do in movies. The octopus in "Finding Dory" had only 7 for that reason.
I remember watching this movie last night because I was bored.
I liked this movie because it had a realistic monster. The giant octopus is real though maybe not that large Also the creature was hunting human's on ships because radiation from nuclear subs caused it's food source, fish, to flee so the thing was starving.
😊agreed
Great video Eric!
Thanks!
GOG! 1954! Please review this weird and colorful movie. Strangely ahead of its time, imo.
I've added it to the list!
@ thx!
Can you do a review on 1970 Equinox🎉 happy and healthy New Year🎉
Great movie. I love it
Although this is an interesting movie, I much prefer the next movie that they all made: Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers. Maybe it only because of all the flying saucers rather than the octopus.
Coool
Fun movie 🎉
Fun movie 🎬 😂😂😂
Great monster action, but this is the least of his black-and-white, 1950s films
Love triangle? I thought Doc Carter was 50s gay, you know, closeted and coded.
If so, it was too subtle for me to notice, and I usually pick up on that. Thinking back on it though, you could totally be correct.