This Saturday Turner Classic Movies, the greatest TV channel of all time, presents 1981’s Clash of the Titans, the last of Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion spectacles (check the TCM schedule for local airtimes). So…
Monster-of-the-Week: …this week let’s give the nod to “Dioskilos,” a variation on Cerberus with two heads instead of three…
…with whom Perseus and pals clash in the course of their adventure. I wonder if a spray bottle of water—or maybe two spray bottles, one in each hand—would have helped the poor creature’s behavior?
As for why Harryhausen decided that two heads were better three, it was probably for the same reason that his “It” in It Came From Beneath the Sea...
...was a “hexapus” rather than an octopus—fewer appendages, faster animation.
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Thursday, September 4, 2014
Thursday, November 3, 2011
BAD BAD BAD DOG
Let’s turn to mythology…
Monster-of-the-Week: …for this week’s honoree: Cerberus, the three-headed hound of Hades. Here's the multi-pooch, as depicted by William Blake…
But the real reason I wanted to give him the nod is that my sister recently sent me some photos of dog Halloween costumes, & this one…
…was easily my favorite.
Monster-of-the-Week: …for this week’s honoree: Cerberus, the three-headed hound of Hades. Here's the multi-pooch, as depicted by William Blake…
But the real reason I wanted to give him the nod is that my sister recently sent me some photos of dog Halloween costumes, & this one…
…was easily my favorite.
Labels:
CERBERUS,
MONSTER-OF-THE-WEEK,
MYTHOLOGY,
WILLIAM BLAKE
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