Author Archives: Jeff Kuykendall
Double Feature: Jaws (1975)/Jaws 2 (1978)
To call Jaws (1975) a landmark is an understatement. There is a cultural dividing line of Before Jaws and After Jaws. After Jaws, sharks were the undisputed monsters of the ocean, the prominent shark fin slipping out of the waters … Continue reading
Posted in Double Feature, Theater Caligari
Tagged 70's, horror, Killer Shark, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Steven Spielberg
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24 Hours of Stop Motion Creatures
The recent arrival of Indicator’s Sinbad Trilogy box set, collecting the three Sinbad films with special effects by Ray Harryhausen, and Indicator’s subsequent announcement of the forthcoming The Wonderful Worlds of Ray Harryhausen Volume 1 (It Came from Beneath the … Continue reading
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
As fantasy films go, they don’t get much better than this. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) was also the seventh big-screen voyage of Ray Harryhausen, whose magical stop motion creatures populated Mighty Joe Young (1949, alongside mentor Willis O’Brien), … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Fantastique
Tagged 50's, Arabian Nights, Bernard Herrmann, cyclops, Dragon, Fantasy, genie, Kathryn Grant, Kerwin Mathews, Nathan Juran, Ray Harryhausen, Richard Eyer, Roc, Sirens, Skeleton, Stop Motion, Torin Thatcher
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