Hump Day & Chill

Ladies & Gentlemen - Medusa!

While surfing the WWW I spied the above photo of Medusa from Ray Harryhausen's 1981 stop motion spectacle Clash of the Titans!

This took me back to my teenage years and the memory I have of seeing it on the big screen. Thus we are going to Hump Day & Chill to fond memories from our youth. Yeah. I thought you might quite like that.

Personally I love coming across something that triggers these types of memories from my days of yore. Let's face it while there are many great memories one has as an adult the best ones usually are from when we were young and didn't have adult responsibilities.

I never did catch the redo of this gem, I was reluctant to. I didn't want it to tarnish my memory of how much fun the original was when I saw it at the movies.

Besides, while the stop motion effects were dated by this point in film making history, their simpliicity and old fashioned charm added to the film and the story IMO.

Anyway I'm off with Medusa to Hump Day & Chill, what's your fond memory today?

Clash of the Titans on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_the_Titans_(1981_film)  

Film Buff Friday: Ray Harryhausen

I remember begging my Dad to take me to see "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" and how excited I was to see "Clash of the Titans"

Ray Harryhausen was my spirit animal as a kid.

The remarkable career of the movie industry's most admired and influential special-effects auteur, the legendary Ray Harryhausen, is the subject of Gilles Penso's definitive documentary Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan. 

Leaving no doubt as to Harryhausen's seminal influence on modern-day special effects, the documentary features enlightening and entertaining interviews with the man himself, Randy Cook, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Phil Tippet, Terry Gilliam, Dennis Muren, John Landis, Guillermo del Toro, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and many more. 

These filmmakers, who today push the boundaries of special effects movie-making, pay tribute to the father of Stop Motion animation and films such as 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms', 'It Came from Beneath the Sea', 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad', 'Mysterious Island', 'Jason and the Argonauts' and 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad' - the films that enthralled them as children and inspired them to become filmmakers in their own right.

Bonus Materials

Interviews with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Peter Lord, Rick Baker

12 Interview outtakes with Joe Dante, John Lasseter, Nick Park and more!

A message to Ray

Deleted Scenes

On the set of Sinbad

Paris Cinematheque Q&A

London Gate Theater Q&A

Audio commentary with the filmmakers

Original Trailer

Ray Harryhausen Trailer Reel

Pre-order at the MVD SHOP or on Amazon