Today, the stop-motion finally stopped: Ray Harryhausen dead at 92
Special Effects Pioneer and Master of Monsters Ray Harryhausen dead at 92.
If you were a kid of a certain age who liked monsters, you couldn't have lived in the 60's-80's in the US without seeing a Harryhausen flick at least once. And you probably loved them. It didn't matter if it was the Giant Octopus from It Came From Beneath the Sea, the poor scared Ymir from Twenty Million Miles To Earth, the weird monsters from every single one of the Sinbad movies or that classic, the swordbearing skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts, you would have seen them at least once and probably more times than that.
And now he's gone, and one more genuine artist of the big screen has left us. Fare thee well, Mister Harryhausen, and may everything be good for you in whatever Elysian Fields are reserved for a man who truly made special effects special.
If you were a kid of a certain age who liked monsters, you couldn't have lived in the 60's-80's in the US without seeing a Harryhausen flick at least once. And you probably loved them. It didn't matter if it was the Giant Octopus from It Came From Beneath the Sea, the poor scared Ymir from Twenty Million Miles To Earth, the weird monsters from every single one of the Sinbad movies or that classic, the swordbearing skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts, you would have seen them at least once and probably more times than that.
And now he's gone, and one more genuine artist of the big screen has left us. Fare thee well, Mister Harryhausen, and may everything be good for you in whatever Elysian Fields are reserved for a man who truly made special effects special.