What would you get if you mixed Disney’s science fiction classic Tron with a Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game but then hired seven directors to put it all together? The answer to that would be The Dungeonmaster a film by the legendary B-movie director Charles Band and is an entry either destined for greatness or…
Tag: Ray Harryhausen
Warlords of Atlantis (1978) – Review
Atlantis is the mythical island which supposedly sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago and it hasn’t stopped making trouble since, from the writings of Plato to the screenplays of Hollywood this fabled landmass has provided a great backdrop to some quite entertaining tales, also not so entertaining ones, and today we will be…
Monster from Green Hell (1957) – Review
When it comes to science fiction there is nothing more dangerous than space exploration, especially in the 1950s, but with the film Monster from Green Hell, we get a different wrinkle, one where the simple “planning” on going into space results in a terrifying encounter with a deadly menace, and this a threat not found…
Ray Harryhausen: The Titan of Special Effects
Today with but a few keystrokes on a computer you can conjurer up anything that the mind could possibly imagine yet many of these modern creations pale in comparison to the practical special effects orchestrated decades earlier by a talented group of effects artists who pioneered the field of special effects, and the king of…
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) – Review
With this entry, special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen and fellow producer Charles H. Schneer would conclude their Sinbad trilogy, following the previous successful entries of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, but with Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger lightning was not going to strike a third time as…