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[Images] Ray Harryhausen’s Most Iconic Creatures Have Been Restored for an Exhibit Next Year
The late Ray Harryhausen is the man most synonymous with stop-motion animation and for good reason. Harryhausen’s contributions to films like It Came from Beneath the Sea, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and Clash of the Titans immortalized him as a legend, his work paid tribute to by everyone from Chuck Russell in Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors to Sam Raimi in Army of Darkness. Next year, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art pays tribute to the stop-motion master with Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema.
Reported by Creative Boom, it’ll be “the largest and widest-ranging exhibition of Harryhausen’s work ever seen,” including materials both previously unseen and newly restored.
Classic creatures from the Harryhausen vault that have been restored include:
- Medusa, Clash of the Titans
- Skeletons, Jason and the Argonauts
- Kraken, Clash of the Titans
- Allosaurus, One Million Years B.C.
- Minaton, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Vanessa Harryhausen, Ray’s daughter, told the site: “Our plans to celebrate Dad’s centenary at the National Galleries in Edinburgh are so exciting; if he was still around, he would be so enthused by all of our plans for 2020! It’s wonderful that we are able to display so much of Dad’s collection: the space at the Galleries gives us great scope to display as many of his models and artworks as possible, as well as personal items which have never been exhibited before, such as his equipment and tools.”
The exhibit will kick off on May 23, 2020. Learn more over on Creative Boom.
© The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, Photography: Sam Drake (National Galleries of Scotland)
© The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, Photography: Sam Drake (National Galleries of Scotland)
© The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, Photography: Sam Drake (National Galleries of Scotland)
© The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, Photography: Sam Drake (National Galleries of Scotland)
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One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.
Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”
In the SXSW 2024 horror film…
“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.
“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”
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